Covid Italy, -23% hospitalizations: highest decline in the last 6 weeks

The decline of Covid hospitalizations in Italy continues. “In one week, the number of hospitalized patients fell further by 23.1%, reaching the highest drop recorded in recent weeks. This is, in fact, the sixth consecutive survey with a minus sign: hospitalized patients continue to decrease in the ward from the beginning of August “. This is the figure that emerges from the report of the Fiaso (Italian Federation of health and hospital companies) of 13 September, with the monitoring of sentinel hospitals belonging to the network. Read also “The decrease in the last week was mainly the patients in the ordinary wards (-24.7%) – the report reads – while in the intensive care there was an increase of 3 patients: an oscillation that, in the face of numbers now so low, it is of little significance in the analysis of the hospitalization curve “. The descent this week concerns in an almost equivalent manner both hospitalizations ‘for Covid’ and those ‘with Covid’, highlights Fiaso. “Currently, the percentage of patients in hospital for respiratory symptoms is 53%, while the remaining 47% is made up of patients undergoing treatment for other pathologies and found incidentally positive for pre-admission swab”. Positive signals also come from pediatric hospitalizations. . In one week, the number of patients in the pediatric hospitals and pediatric wards of the Fiaso sentinel network fell by 27%. 53% of minors hospitalized due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus are between 0 and 4 years old.