Vaia: "Now you are infected in foreign families or communities"

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22 September 2020 "The reports of these days tell us that we are in the queue of the phenomenon of returning from holidays and the infections occur through intrafamilial contacts or by clusters attributable to communities of foreign residents, especially for work reasons".

Thus Francesco Vaia, medical director of Spallanzani in Rome.

"This - Vaia emphasizes - would be a topic to be explored, because if we do not intervene surgically by isolating and placing under active observation only the closest cohort, the small economy, especially referring to trade, distribution (I am thinking of local markets), catering it risks having an even more important collapse effect than the one received by the lockdown. Or, paradoxically, we risk having slices of the population out of control ".

Another cause of clusters for Vaia "unfortunately is determined by individual errors or irresponsibility. We remember that those who have symptoms must stay at home and refrain from any community activity or attendance of other people".

"Italy is surrounded by countries where the virus is in a phase of great growth. And therefore it is necessary to intervene at European level for test activities in airports, ports and stations and avoid positive people boarding to the coronavirus ", said Spallanzanii's medical director again.

"The virus has no mercy on the most fragile, especially the elderly. We observe an increase in intensive care essentially due to the increase in the average age of patients and concomitant diseases, especially in elderly subjects ", said Francesco Vaia.

"The elderly are a crucial issue, which we have been addressing for some time - he adds - Now we need to intervene quickly both in the territory, enhancing home care, and in the cities, imagining spaces for socializing that embellish and highlight the enormous potential of the elderly, who in a generational exchange they can give great impetus to our society. I am thinking of a large co-housing, for example in Rome, which brings together young and old in an exchange of roles and functions that we can only benefit from. Well then, the Minister of Health and the Lazio Region well, which has been working in this direction for some time. Now let's try to do it quickly.

At this moment 107 positive swab patients for Sars-CoV-2 research are hospitalized at Spallanzani in Rome.

14 patients require intensive care.

The patients discharged and transferred to their homes or to other local structures are, this morning, 704. This is what emerges from today's bulletin of the institute.