Covid Italia, Fiaso: hospitalizations down after 3 weeks of growth

“The decline in Covid hospitalizations has begun slowly. In the last monitored week, April 5-12, the number of hospitalized patients decreased by 1%”. This is what emerges from the survey in sentinel hospitals of the Italian Federation of health and hospital companies (Fiaso). A week ago, however, there was an increase of 3.6%. Read also “This is the first inversion of the trend after three consecutive weeks in which hospitalizations had increased hand in hand with the rise in infections – highlights Fiaso – According to the data of the latest report, hospitalizations in ordinary wards decreased, according to the data of the latest report. while in the resuscitation the situation has remained almost stable “. The share of patients hospitalized ‘with Covid’, “without respiratory and pulmonary symptoms but in hospital for the treatment of other diseases and found positive for the pre-hospitalization swab, has now represented the majority in ordinary wards for months: 55% of the total”, highlights the report. “We are witnessing an inversion of the hospitalization curve with a, albeit slight, decrease in total cases and it is certainly a good sign that heralds a more significant decline in the coming days – comments the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore – Intensive care data , with the changes in the epidemiological situation and the endemization of the virus, highlight how extremely vulnerable individuals with an advanced age that has further grown over the months pay the most serious consequences of the Covid-19 disease: they are therefore the fragile and the elderly are the most at risk. This confirms the goodness of the choice to widen the audience of the fourth vaccination dose to the over 80 and the frail over 60 years. It is necessary to push on the second booster – he concludes – and reiterate its importance in guaranteeing a complete immunological coverage given that to date less than 10% of the immunocompromised population has joined it “.70 YEARS AGE RESUSCITATION ADMISSION -” all “Covid” patients have comorbidities: the percentage of subjects suffering from serious pathologies and hospitalized in resuscitation following the infection of the Sars-CoV-2 virus is very high and exceeds 90% among both vaccinated and unvaccinated. Another data to underline is that of the average age of patients in intensive care, which in the last 3 months, from January to April, has risen by about 5 years, reaching 70 years “. SITUATION REMAINS CRITICAL FOR MORE CHILDREN. SMALL ADMITTED – “The critical situation remains for younger children, in which Covid determines more committed frameworks, to be protected more through the vaccination of their parents”. “Overall, 62 patients under 18 are hospitalized for or with Covid ‘in the four children’s hospitals. In the survey of 5 April there were 58 “, specifies the report which in the analysis shows that” the variation is minimal and confirms the continuously fluctuating data already recorded during the previous weeks. The age group most affected, as always, is that between 0 and 4 years (66%). 16%, on the other hand, are between 5 and 11 years old and 18% between 12 and 18 years old “.