Al crescere dei nuovi casi di Covid-19 “non corrisponde un parallelo incremento dei ricoveri” ma “con questo tasso di crescita dei casi rischiamo comunque di intasare gli ospedali perche’ si puo’ arrivare a 2 milioni di positivi”.
Thus said Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation, speaking on the program 'L'Italia s'e' desta” on Radio Cusano Campus.
“All the measures implemented so far by the government,” he said, “are a sum of hot air balloons that cannot slow down the circulation of the virus,” later explaining that more smart working is needed to help slow down the circulation.
“We have an enormous amount of cases, never seen before – continues Cartabellotta – so much so that many have defined Omicron as the most contagious virus in history and the numbers we are seeing speak volumes in this regard. We have a moving average of about 100 thousand cases per day”.
And having 100 positive people per day means that "1100 are hospitalized in the medical area and 120 in intensive care. It is certainly due to the increase in booster doses and we also hope to the lower virulence of the omicron variant".
If hospital congestion is "less fast, however, the impact is still there and with this growth rate we risk reaching 2 million positives and even if the hospitalization rate were 1% we would have 20 thousand people in hospital". We must therefore try to reduce the circulation of the virus. First of all, for Cartabellotta, "we must limit social contacts, perhaps by increasing smart working".
Article published on 3 January 2022 - 14:32
