Covid Italy, hospitalizations are still increasing. Positivity rate rises to 4.1%

The positivity rate in Italy rises to 4.1% (from 2.8%). According to the bulletin of 9 August, 4,200 new infections from Coronavirus were made out of 102,864 swabs. Intensive care patients are also increasing, with 323 people (+24) and 2,786 (+155) in the other wards. And while the extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo announces 10 million available doses of vaccine and preferential lanes for young people, Franco Locatelli, president of the Superior Health Council (Css) and coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee (Cts) talks about the possibility of a third dose for patients who have an impaired function of the immune system “. Read also From August 16 10 million doses available, three million more ” From August 16 onwards we will have three million more doses compared to what we thought, thanks to the action that President Draghi has done with the European commission. From the 16th to the end of the month we will therefore have about 10 million doses at national level that will allow us to continue at an excellent pace, ” he said the extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo. ” Today in Italy we are first doses of 69% and about 64% of vaccinated people – he added – d we have to keep running ”. Vaccine, preferential lanes for young people ” From after August 15th we will start with a targeted activity for the youngest, certainly continuing to think about the over 50s, because it is a category that needs to implement the numbers of vaccinated people and it is a category that the variants certainly remain and risk, but we must think about the reopening of schools in safety ”, said Figliuolo. ” The scientific technical committee has set as a sufficient goal that of reaching 60% of vaccinated students before the start of school and to do this, given the very good propensity of this category to get vaccinated, the thought is to make a plan that it can, starting after August 15th, allow these young people to arrive in hubs with preferential lanes, practically without reservations – he added – We will do this throughout Italy ”. Third dose hypothesis The third dose of Covid vaccine “has a strong scientific rationale for patients who have an impaired function of the immune system”, such as “those with oncological or hematological pathology, rather than recipients of a solid organ transplant , just to name two of these categories “. Instead, “for the third dose in frail subjects due to concomitant pathology or personal reasons, I believe that the subject must be faced in a slightly different perspective. We do not fully know how long the immunological protection lasts, certainly we know that it reaches 9 months, but most likely it extends even further. So, if and when a third dose is needed is all a question to be discussed and analyzed in a precise way, also because let’s not forget that we still have populations that have to complete the vaccination cycle “. This is the reflection of Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council (Css) and coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee (Cts) for the Covid emergency, who spoke at ‘L’Aria che tira – Estate’ on La7.