Emilia Romagna: almost four citizens out of a hundred vaccinated. The medical rebus – Chronicle

Bologna, March 9, 2021 – The messiah vaccine. We grit our teeth, we resist. Covid advances and overwhelms theEmilia Romagna, the English variant crushes half the region, non-urgent surgical operations are suspended almost everywhere, hospitals collapse. We lock ourselves in the house, since yesterday also there Romagna is red, along with Bologna e Modena and now it seems they are risking too Ferrara e Parma. There are people in trouble, people who no longer know how to make ends meet because they don’t work; but the bills do work and still have to be paid, like the food. A disaster: all that remains is to rely on the mythical sting.

Countryside

The vaccination campaign started very badly, by now we know it well. They all made mistakes: Europe, the old government, our own Region with its proclamations last week, like “All vaccinated by September” (Donini at the beginning of the year), “Over 80 free from the end of March” ( Donini in mid-February) “We will make 50 thousand doses a day” (Bonaccini i on December 29). We are not here to look at who has made the most mistakes – also because with this virus-monster it is almost impossible not to make mistakes – much better to look at the present and the future.

The numbers

Let’s think positively: something is moving. At this time, in Emilia Romagna, the 3,6% of the population has been vaccinated; l’11% he had at least one puncture. Over the past week, the daily average of vaccinated has exceeded 13mila drive, Saturday we got to over 17mila . Good. Our numbers are better than the national average: 2,77% the vaccinated population, the 6,38% only received one dose. The acceleration is essential, also because if we were to continue instead at the pace of ten days ago, you know when we would reach the long-awaited herd immunity (70% of the vaccinated population)? The May 3. Ma de l 2022 , not 2021.

Schools

The problem these days is the vaccination of school staff (by the way almost everything in Dad in the region). At the forefront there are general practitioners who, however, even with all their good will, cannot work miracles. Many of them received two bottles of doses AstraZeneca gives 11 , they can therefore do in total 22 injections. A pittance. The line is long, everything must be kept frozen and when the vials are opened they must be used quickly (4 hours, a little more). Woe to those who fail: few vaccines and many problems. Domenico He will cry , national secretary of general practitioners said: “You want to race a Formula One GP with a Panda.” From the new government Draghi the steering has arrived: we hope the results will be seen quickly.

Doctors, nurses, Oss

But they, those really on the front line, the doctors – the nurses, the Oss – have all been vaccinated? No. The data provided by the Region at the end of last week make us reflect but must also be interpreted. At the moment the percentage of immunized health personnel is what you see in the graph above, plus or minus number. More than two doctors on ten i are not covered yet, three out of ten nurses , four out of ten the Oss . Thousands of people. Many ask themselves: but are these gentlemen not by chance no vax? “I understand – he explains Fabio Maria Vespa , regional secretary of general practitioners – that the vast majority of ‘doctors’ have said yes to vaccination. If it were up to me, I would still make it mandatory for everyone. “From the first questionnaires at the end of December, beyond 96% some doctors had joined. But now the percentages, as mentioned, are lower. There are no vaxes, of course (more among nurses and especially social health workers than doctors), but delays, allergies, other diseases, Covid itself must also be taken into consideration. Those who have recently contracted the virus are not vaccinated: and there are many, we know it well. The paradoxical history of Marina Sensati, a health worker from Reggio Emilia, cancer patient, not yet punctured. She is 43 years old, the bureaucracy has blocked her several times, as we have told and reported on the Carlino Reggio. Yesterday Ausl called her and apologized making an appointment. Better late than never.

Seniors

It will take a long time, a lot over 80 they have an appointment in May, others even in June. But let’s look at the flip side, in this case the good side: in nursing homes and also among hospital health workers, infections have collapsed since the double administration was carried out. Two numbers: on December 20 there were 720 infected between doctors and surroundings, two months later 100 . Same result in the RSA.
Yes, strength and courage, then: hope, resist.