Covid Italia, Bassetti: “One in 10 hospitalization for severe pneumonia”

“Today out of 10 people who are hospitalized, as many as 8-9 have no symptoms compatible with Sars-CoV-2 infection”. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, while Italy records an increase in covid infections, also driven by the Omicron 5 variant, and an increase in hospitalizations. “80-90% of hospitalizations are for positivity, but they are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic. Therefore, the patients who come in with interstitial or bilateral pneumonia, with a challenging picture, are less than 10-15%”, says Bassetti. “I am obviously talking about the situation I face in a Region, Liguria, and in a city, Genoa, with many elderly people and where we should therefore see more than others. There are reinfections but we are talking about mild clinical pictures, people who have you get infected in March and have a sore throat or a little fever today, “she says. “The fact that today there are triple or quadruple positives, I don’t understand what can change – remarked Bassetti – we don’t have them only in Italy, there is a wave also in all the other European countries. in a way that is consistent with the rest of Europe, or if we face it in a brainy way as we are doing, we are doing nothing but harm “.