Yellow zone Sardinia in August real risk? The data, what can happen

Does Sardinia really risk the yellow zone in August, with more restrictive rules and measures, according to the new parameters for the ‘color change’ of the Regions? Yesterday’s data reports 522 new coronavirus infections out of 3,523 people tested and another 4 deaths. While the numbers of hospitalizations remain stable, 87, such as that of intensive care, 19. The island has seen the occupation of beds by Covid-19 patients in intensive care units progressively increase and has come to touch – according to data from the Agency for Health Services (Agenas) – the critical threshold of 10% (it was 1% in mid-July). So, is Sardinia’s ‘yellow’ fate now sealed? “The use of places in intensive care in a period in which there is no pressure” on the health system “must also be read with judgment – pointed out the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, who spoke at ‘Radio Cusano Campus’ – If you look data from Sardinia, we can see that there are indeed 10% of intensive care posts occupied, but a much lower percentage of medical posts “occupied by Covid patients. “So I would wait before saying that the situation is reaching the threshold for yellow,” said Sileri. That Sardinia becomes the yellow zone “is possible and probable, but be careful – he warned – today it is possible that patients who have a very fast turnover, that is, they enter first and leave earlier, are admitted to intensive care. Conversely, a year ago when intensive care units were busy, access was perhaps more delayed, with more serious, elderly and compromised patients “. Therefore, concluded the undersecretary, “pay attention to these numbers, which can fluctuate more quickly”. Meanwhile, the epidemiological situation Covid-19 in Italy is further worsening, as measured by the ECDC, European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in based on the incidence of positive cases at 14 days per 100 thousand inhabitants, combined with the positive rate on the tests carried out. In the updated epidemiological map, the regions in red rise to 4: in fact, Tuscany and the Marches also switch to this color, after Sicily and Sardinia. While much of the rest of the Peninsula, to a greater extent than last week, is in yellow. Only three regions remain green – Puglia, Molise, Valle d’Aosta – and the autonomous province of Bolzano.