Covid today in Italy, after seven weeks of steady decline, the curve of ordinary hospitalizations dates back. In the last week, the number of hospitalized in Covid areas has grown by 10.7%. The highest incidence, with + 15%, is marked by the south and the islands. On the other hand, the number of Covid patients in intensive care has recorded a drop of 20.7%. This is what emerges from the survey in the sentinel hospitals of Fiaso, the Federation of health and hospital companies, of 22 March. Hospitalizations, down since February 1, had still recorded an overall decline of 5.2% last week.
In hospitals, the number of hospitalized ‘with Covid’ in ordinary wards exceeds the number of patients who arrived in hospital with respiratory syndrome, therefore of patients hospitalized ‘for Covid’. 54% of the current hospitalized in ordinary medical wards arrived at the hospital ‘with Covid’, or to treat other pathologies but was found accidentally positive for the virus thanks to the pre-hospitalization swab. 46% are hospitalizations ‘for Covid’, closely linked to the effects of the Coronavirus disease, which however recorded a growth of 11% in the last week.
In the ICU the reduction in one week was 20.3%. Of the patients in resuscitation, 72% are not vaccinated or have not completed the vaccination course. The average age of the unvaccinated remains lower than the vaccinated. The minimum age of the inpatients among the vaccinated is 50 years, among the unvaccinated the youngest patient is 36 years old.
“This constant decrease – comments the president of Fiaso, Giovanni Migliore – is a confirmation of how vaccination protects against severe forms of Covid. It is also important to underline that 70% of patients in resuscitation have other serious previous pathologies. For these patients with frailty it is very necessary to complete the vaccination course or to undergo the fourth dose if indicated “.
The curve of pediatric hospitalizations also returns to decline. The Fiaso report recorded “a -6% in the last week, after the surge recorded among the under 18s in the week 8-15 March which had registered a + 48%”. Of the small patients hospitalized in the 4 pediatric hospitals and in the pediatric wards of the sentinel hospitals that adhere to the Fiaso network, “no one is in intensive care”, the report specifies. “The age group most affected, as always, is that between 0 and 4 years (54%). About half of children between 0 and 6 months have both unvaccinated parents or an unvaccinated mother. And also in older children. at 12 years in hospital, 50% are unvaccinated “, concludes the report.