Covid today Italy, the alarm: “Another 3 weeks, then full intensive care”

In Italy grappling with a new wave of covid and Omicron variant infections, “we still have 3-4 weeks before the intensive care units fill up. It is the time that passes between a contagion, the progression of the severe disease, the hospitalization and then intensive care. In mid-January we could have the Covid resuscitation beds totally occupied. All this could be diluted even more over time if the latest squeezes on the measures taken by the Government have any effect. But be careful, there are some Regions that have worse data and are already suffering today “. Alessandro Vergallo, national president of the Italian hospital anesthetists association (Aaroi-Emac), underlines this to Adnkronos Salute, commenting on the data from Agenas which indicate that Italy has already reached 12% for the occupancy of places in therapy intensive, exceeding the critical threshold set at 10%. Read also Is the identikit of those arriving in intensive care changing? “We always have 75-80% of patients who are not vaccinated – replies Vergallo -. There is a hard core that shows unshakeable certainties even in the face of the risk of not leaving intensive care, then there are also those who in the end understand that he was wrong not to get vaccinated “. Anesthesiologists are also alarmed by the no-Covid assistance which today “is suffering a lot”, remarks Vergallo: “Let’s not forget that the more the hospital suffers from the pressure of Covid patients, the more the ability to deliver ‘assistance and care for non-Covid patients “.” From a health point of view, as we have seen in Germany, a lockdown for the unvaccinated is more effective than reducing the quarantine for contacts of a positive. But they are choices that must make politics, also taking into account a balance with the economic and social activities of the country “, underlines Alessandro Vergallo, commenting on the hypothesis that tomorrow the CTS decides to reduce the quarantine for vaccinated people who have had contact with a positive.