Covid. In intensive care, unvaccinated patients increase by 17%

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01 December 2021 In intensive care, unvaccinated patients increase by 17% while vaccinated patients decrease by 10%. This is evidenced by the data relating to the sentinel hospitals of Fiaso (Federation of health and hospital companies) recorded on 30 November. In one week, according to Fiaso, the number of hospitalized people increased by 16%. The trend of Covid hospitalizations, says Fiaso, is in "progressive growth and acceleration". However, the decrease in vaccinated in the intensive is a "positive signal about the protection of the vaccine from severe forms". The total number of patients under 18 admitted to sentinel hospitals is 17 of which 2 in intensive care. 

In all, Fiaso notes, there are 810 hospitalized patients monitored by the study against 697 on 23 November. The increase also seems to accelerate compared to the last survey when the growth rate was slightly lower, equal to 11%. The data relating to intensive care in which patients grow at a slower rate are partially different. The hospitalizations in intensive care show an increase of only 7 units, equal to 9%, and it is exclusively unvaccinated.

Sentinel hospitals also highlight how

: Covid positive patients who end up in hospital without having received even a dose of vaccine are on average

unlike the vaccinated who are 74.7 years old. Furthermore, the presence of previous pathologies continues to be higher among those who have been vaccinated: among the vaccinated patients with comorbidities are 71% while among the unvaccinated 56%. The unvaccinated who are hospitalized, therefore, are on average younger and enjoy a better state of health.

"The hospitalizations of unvaccinated people are growing, those of vaccinated are decreasing: the data of the Fiaso sentinel hospitals relating to intensive care in the last week show that the worst consequences of Covid are essentially the unvaccinated - comments the President Fiaso Giovanni Migliore -. We are confident that the enlargement of the audience for the third dose and the broad coverage of the frail will protect vaccinated subjects from severe forms of the disease. However, the vaccination campaign must also be undertaken among children to block the circulation of the virus and to protect the most fragile ".

The number of hospitalized Covid patients "is growing, but the data show that vaccination and early diagnosis positively and significantly affect the type of patients who need hospitalization and intensive care and the outcome of the disease - continues Massimo Lombardo , Director General of the Asst Spedali Civili of Brescia -. All the prevention tools, including hand hygiene, the use of masks and social distancing are still necessary if we want to reduce the impact of the disease ". 

The total number of patients under the age of 18 admitted to Fiaso sentinel hospitals is 17, of which 2 are in intensive care. The average age is 4 years. The two hospitalized in intensive care are 14 and 11 years old and are hospitalized at the Santobono pediatric hospital in Naples and at the Riuniti hospitals in Ancona.

"In the fourth pandemic wave we are witnessing an increase in children hospitalized for Covid and someone also expresses the need for intensive care. The aggressiveness of the virus does not spare the little ones and, in addition to affecting them with the disease, makes them potential vectors of the disease. infection among adults: this is why it is necessary to proceed with vaccination in pediatric age. It serves to protect our children, to curb the circulation of the virus and also to guarantee the right to study by reducing infections in schools and ensuring the regularity of lessons in the presence "declares Rodolfo Conenna, Director General of the Santobono-Pausilipon pediatric hospital.