In the week between June 29 and July 5, deaths also increased (+ 18.4%). Fourth doses of the vaccine stalled: 44.2% of immunocompromised and 21.1% for over 80. Cartabellotta: “A mask is essential indoors”
An increase on all fronts. This is what the weekly monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation. Between June 29 and July 5 a increase in new cases
which pass from 384,093 to 595.349 by registering a 55% increase. Although significantly less alarming, deaths are also increasing at a rate of + 18.4% (464 versus 392). In addition, hospitalizations are growing both in ordinary hospitalization and in intensive care, with respectively a + 32.6% and + 36.3%
(here last week’s Gimbe monitoring).
“The increase in new weekly cases for the third consecutive week exceeds 50%, with a doubling time of about 10 days”, he comments Nino Cartabellottapresident of the Gimbe Foundation, «in the week of June 29-July 5 the new cases amounted to over 595 thousandwith a 7-day moving average exceeding 85 thousand cases a day“. In all the Regions of Italy there is an increase in new cases of positivity ranging from 24.7% in Sardinia to 95.9% in Lombardy. With regard to the provinces, out of 103, are 38 those that register one thousand every per 100 thousand inhabitants.
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“On the hospital front,” he explains Marco Mosti, Operations Director of the Gimbe Foundation, “hospitalizations continue to increase both in the medical area (+ 32.6%) and in intensive care (+ 36.3%)”. In particular, in the critical area from the minimum of 183 on 12 June the number of beds occupied has risen to 323 on July 5; in area medicaon the other hand, from the low of 4,076 on 11 June, they almost double, rising to an altitude 8.003 on July 5th. “Even if we are still a long way from situations of severe hospital overload, there are real reasons for concern», States Cartabellotta. Thanks to the summer holidays, the number is destined to increase, involving above all elderly people and people with multiple pathologies. The largest effects would initially occur on the the structures’ ability to provide non-Covid-related servicessuch as interventions and non-urgent specialist visits, thus lengthening the waiting lists.
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On the vaccine front, it emerges that the administration of the fourth dose to immunosuppressed people did not have the hoped-for success: the coverage stood at 44.2% nationwide. Deep regional differences, with the Piedmont which vaccinated 100% of the frail and Calabria stops 10.7%. The figure further precipitates if we analyze the audience made up of over 80, guests of the RSA and the frail from 60 to 79 years where only the 21,1% made the third recall. Definitely better third doseswhich record a national percentage of immunized83,5%. In general, they are 6.84 million people over 5 who have not received any dose of drug against the virus.
“In this phase of exponential growth of infections, which does not account for the” submerged “of undeclared cases (with do-it-yourself tests, ndr) it is essential to contain viral circulation by using masks indoorsin particular in crowded and poorly ventilated places, as well as outdoors in conditions of large gatherings with activities with a high probability of contagion “, he concludes.
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