Increase in Covid cases in Lazio, elderly people at risk: general practitioners alert

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1 to 3 cases per doctor per day, to spread without monitoring national numbers, because the swab detection system has decreased significantly.

These are the data from the Rome Fimmg Network in the Lazio region, where the number of Covid is rising significantly, with real risks for the elderly and debilitated”, to the point that the Federation has already sent a notification to doctors families, to take the measures, in particular to activate protective measures such as masks and distance in studies where they were resolved, providing the rules of approach and information on the behavior to be followed to avoid the contamination of vulnerable people.

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The influenza pathology has paved the way for a major return of the Covid disease, which spread throughout the winter and then in the background in the following months” affirms Maria Corongiu, infectious disease specialist and president of Fimmg Rome “we are wait to see if the variant is circulating in Italy after the KP3 version in the US has already been adopted, but the main problem is that all the prevention and control measures have been dismantled, inserted on tissue monitoring, so the risk of infection for the elderly. and highly fragile. Last, but not least, the obligation for individual protection in hospitals was abolished from June 30”.

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Limits of official data

“It must be clarified – concludes Maria Corongiu – that the official data suffers from some limitations because many citizens do the test independently, they do not always confirm the presence of the disease to the doctor, and therefore a significant part is not even for infections. detected by family doctors.” “The incidence in Lazio is currently 18 cases per 100,000 inhabitants with reinfections at 48%, the national system has detected 1007 cases in Lazio and in Italy there are 5548, an indicative number, but far from perceived reality”.

SUQIAN, CHINA - DECEMBER 27, 2022 - Illustration: Antigen testing equipment, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, December 27, 2022. (Photo by CFOTO/Sipa USA)

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