"It's wartime medicine"
Emergency departments are collapsing across all Italy from Turin to Lombardy to Rome. Days of wait just to get an hospital bed. Ambulances stuck in a queue. Covid, influenza and even lack of staff due to the festive season
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In Lazio, the Rome's region, public healthcare had to buy over 500 hospital beds from private institutions at the cost of 33 million € to front the emergency. Yet, even this wasn't enough and people are still fighting for care
Hundreds of people have been stuck in emergency departments in Lombardia, the early Covid epicenter of 2020 [apparently, "hybrid immunity" hasn't been achieved 🙄]. Emergencies in Milan, Lombardy's capital, are under siege
@xabitron1 progresses with Lazio 🙂
At Turin's hospital Le Molinette, in Piedmont, north Italy, even stretchers have been lacking
Many healthcare professionals are down with Covid and influenza too, leading to a lack of staff. In Modena, patients are being mainly seen by junior doctors who finished specialist training one month ago, or the like. The Emilia Romagna region is in fact under duress, too
In Lombardy, which is severely affected by the crisis, it appears access to rehabilitation centres has been halted as to move hospitalized patients who do not necessitate acute treatment anymore to such structures (2020 vibes. I hope such patients aren't infectious anymore..)
According to La Repubblica newspaper, on Thursday almost half of the ambulances in use during daytime (64 out of 150) were stuck in queues outside hospitals in Lazio-Rome, as not enough hospital places were available to accept the patients
Translation and summary by myself from the original Italian newspaper article
Medical professionals for example from the SIMET association have been raising the alarm too. Many patients with respiratory and febrile conditions do have Covid on test
General practitioners and family doctors in Italy are receiving dozens of phone calls in a few hours by sick patients
Liguria, north Italy, is also under pressure
Giorgia Meloni herself, Italy's PM, has been down with a "stubborn influenza" that doesn't go away
Pediatric infections with Covid, streptococcus and influenza are also hitting children hard
A severe situation in Lombardy, with Welfare's Guido Bertolaso reportedly meeting up with hospital directors to tackling the emergency. Niguarda hospital emergency had 500 patients between Thursday and Wednesday (photo is archive). Covid and influenza
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From one week ago, a difficult situation also in Naples, with the ICU full at the Cotugno hospital. Covid and flu key drivers. A patient had to wait 24 hours for needed treatment.
Covid positivity rate now at 20.4% (+2.3%)
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"I saw again after years an extremely severe Covid case."
A testimony from a MD from Italy. (Thanks)
Newborn from Italy, late December 2023, infected with SARS-CoV-2, RSV and pneumococcus. I redacted part of the original tweet for privacy but it's publicly available. I thought a bit before sharing but I think it's important people are aware of the risks and current situation
Data in the tweet above shared publicly by an Italian MD. JN.1 is reportedly, now, the dominant variant in Italy (37%), which probably explains the rise in deaths and hospitalizations
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On 30 December 2023, Lazio and Rome are still under duress, with hundreds of patients at various emergency departments + medical practitioners also under pressure because of a boom of infectious diseases, including Covid 🧵👇
Lombardy, the early Covid epicenter in north Italy, has now decided to block "non-urgent" hospitalizations (e.g. planned surgeries) to free thousands of hospital beds for the severe influx of Covid and influenza patients
@SkyNews Italy now estimates 1 million people in Italy symptomatically affected by Covid, influenza and respiratory diseases (night 31 December 2023 - 1 January 2024)
Healthcare professional from Bologna confirms emergency departments are full, including with patients with dyspnea
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