Covid, “overloaded intensive care in Sicily and Calabria”

Overloaded intensive care in Sicily and Calabria, with a saturation rate of beds, as of 20 September, which also affects the non-critical area on the island. This is what emerges from the 66th Instant Report Covid-19 by Altems, the High School of Economics and Management of Health Systems of the Catholic University, which weekly carries out a systematic comparison of the trend of the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in national level. Read also “The stress indicator of the National Health Service elaborated by Altems for the week (17-23 September) – notes the director of Altems, Americo Cicchetti – shows a national average value equal to 0.31 (the maximum, equal to 1 , indicates entry into the yellow zone), with an average weekly incidence of 47 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 77% of the population over 12 who have completed the vaccination cycle with different values ​​between regions “.” The region with the highest threshold risk in the yellow zone – he underlines – is Sicily, with a stress index of 0.67, an average weekly incidence of 84 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 69% of the population over 12 who have completed the vaccination cycle. Following the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, with a stress index of 0.64, an average weekly incidence of 77 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 71% of the population over 12 who completed the cycle In contrast, the region with the lowest threshold risk in the yellow zone is Molise with a stress index of 0.09, an average weekly incidence of 15 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 81% of the population over 12 who have completed the cycle vaccinal “.