Covid Italy, hospitalizations down in 7 days

Covid retreats in the wards of Italian hospitals. In one week, the hospitalization curve, both in the ordinary wards and in the intensive care units, recorded a sharp decline of 21.5%. In detail, the drop is equal to 21% in medical departments and to a greater extent in intensive care (-28%) where presences are now very low. This is what emerges from the 6 September survey of sentinel hospitals belonging to the network of the Italian Federation of health and hospital companies (Fiaso). Read also The decline observed in the week of 30 August-6 September – the report underlines – is the most conspicuous recorded in the last month and a half and represents a clear signal of the weakening of the virus in this phase. However, hospitalizations ‘for Covid’ – underlines the report of the sentinel hospitals Fiaso – have not decreased by much (-6%). Much sharper, however, is the decline in hospitalized ‘with Covid’ (-33.8%). It is possible – explains Fiaso – that this difference in the speed of descent between the two groups of patients depends on a longer average hospital stay of ‘for Covid’. “The flexion of the Covid infection and hospitalization curve and attention diverted to other issues urgent such as expensive energy, which also affects hospitals – comments the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore – must not make us forget, however, the lesson learned in two years of pandemic: it is necessary, now more than ever, to invest more in health It is necessary to do this, in an emergency, starting from a contribution for the increase in the energy bill, but it is necessary to structurally address the issue by further increasing the National Health Fund and eliminating the ceilings on personnel spending that force health and hospital companies to not being able to hire all the professional figures necessary to make the national health system more efficient and innovative. The Covid emergency is now that crisis that turns into opportunity “. Positive signs are also coming from Covid shelters among children. In one week, the number of patients in pediatric hospitals and pediatric wards of the sentinel network has been reduced by 16%, we read in the Fiaso report, which details that 58% of minors hospitalized due to the Sars-Cov virus -2 is between 0 and 4 years old.