Covid, anesthesiologists: “Close to the beginning of the fourth wave, but it will be different”

“We are also in Italy facing the initial foot of a fourth wave” of the pandemic from Covid 19. Alessandro Vergallo, national president of the Italian hospital anesthetists (Aaroi-Emac), underlines this to Adnkronos Salute of Covid cases. “Today in intensive care there is a drastic drop in the older age groups, thanks to vaccines – he highlights – In fact, over 85% of those who develop a serious disease and risk going to resuscitation are unvaccinated or have had a single dose shortly after the infection “. This last “wave will be different from the others we have experienced above all because we have vaccinated half of the Italians – he remembers – and we must take this into account. But we do not know how much the diffusion of variants will be able to overcome the protective factor given by vaccines, the first data – he concludes – they seem to tell us that an increase in infections does not correspond exponentially, as happened in the past, to hospitalizations in intensive care “.