The drop in Covid hospitalizations in Italy resumes significantly: -22% the figure for the last week, even the intensive ones show -19% of patients with Sars Cov-2 infection. This is what emerges from the survey of sentinel hospitals belonging to the Fiaso network, the Italian federation of health and hospital companies, dated 7 March.
The number of hospitalizations ‘for Covid’ is still decreasing, i.e. patients with respiratory insufficiency or pneumonia, -23% of cases in ordinary hospitalization, representing 35% of cases with Sars Cov-2 infection in hospitals. They have an average age of 69 and in 86% of cases they have been vaccinated for over six months and suffer from other pathologies, the report highlights. Hospitalizations ‘with Covid’ are also down, i.e. patients who arrived at the hospital for the treatment of other pathologies and tested positive for the virus without respiratory and pulmonary symptoms. They represent 65% of Covid patients, 73% have been vaccinated for over 6 months.
Low numbers in intensive care which show a 19% drop compared to the last week. The hospitalized are equally distributed between patients ‘for Covid’ and ‘with Covid’ and 72% have been vaccinated for over 6 months.
The number of patients under the age of 18 hospitalized with Sars Cov-2 infection is halved: there are now few units, with a prevalence of hospitalizations ‘with Covid’ and none of them are hospitalized in intensive care. 75% are aged between 0 and 4, concludes Fiaso in the report.
