Covid, Gemelli Roma: “Stable and intensive hospitalizations, let’s hope the descent begins”

There is an air of optimism at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. “The data on Covid hospitalizations are stable. They give us hope for a ‘plateau phase’, hoping for the descent to begin in the coming days”, explains Andrea Cambieri, health director of the Irccs University Hospital in the capital, to Adnkronos Health. “Today, according to the data updated at noon, there are 129 hospitalized, yesterday they were 134. While in intensive care there are 21, against 20 yesterday. And in ordinary hospitalization there are 91 people, they were 97 yesterday”, specifies the medical director . “The trend is a bit sawtooth – continues Cambieri – and this makes me think of the plateau, because when the curve moves in this way, basically, and we all hope so, the descent is approaching”. As regards, more generally, the epidemic, “the hospital is the last to notice the reduction in cases. It is the infections and the numbers on the territory to be observed first. Then, to go down, there are the sick at home, then those who come to the emergency room, then the hospitalized in ordinary hospitalization, intensive care and deaths. The latest numbers at the moment are small: in the emergency room today there were three “. Obviously, Cambieri points out,” we hope that the trend in continue downhill, but everything will depend on what happens outside, if there will be a return from holidays capable of changing the numbers or something else. I keep myself cautious because I could be proven wrong by the data. in August, it rises or falls by a few units, and I sincerely hope that it will mean a short descent “. And he points out that,” in Lazio, vaccination is at 75%, if we consider the bookings already made we are at 80 % with a free agenda, without reservations, it is likely that 85% can be reached. This is an important number and the vaccinated are substantially protected by the Delta variant from hospitalization. “