Los cases of complaint they are on the rise Cordoba and Andalusiaalthough hospital pressure is controlled, while the bronchiolitis seems to have started a stabilization or downward trend, according to sources from the Ministry of Health and Consumption Junta of Andalusia and confirm the head of pediatrics reina sofia hospital, Jose Manuel Rumbao. This was underlined by the Department of Health the 0-4 age group is the one most affected by the fluwhile the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), main cause of bronchiolitis, began to fall. “Perhaps we can say that we have already reached the peak of the bronchiolitis epidemic wave, although we will have to wait and see if this trend consolidates this week,” adds the ministry.
The The hospitalization rate due to flu now exceeds that caused by covid in Córdoba and is 2.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 2.2 due to the coronavirus, underlines the Junta de Andalucía.
This was stated by the Ministry of Health in Andalusia the incidence rate of respiratory virus infections (covid, RSV and flu) is currently 501.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, below the national average, 829.9 for the same percentage of the population, although they have increased compared to the previous week, which figure was 447 .
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Regarding the covid, Salud specifies that the incidence rate in people over 60 stands at 67.6, per 100,000 inhabitants, 10% more than the previous week, but very far from the data for people affected by the pandemic on the same dates as in the previous two years.
José Manuel Rumbao explains that, although the Reina Sofía hospital is prepared in the event that cases of flu increase significantly or due to the increase in bronchiolitis, for the moment it has not been necessary to have more spaces for hospitalizations. The head of Pediatrics indicated that theBronchiolitis has not caused as many hospitalizations in Córdoba as in other parts of the country or in Andalusia He added that the current surge in flu hasn’t lifted hospital pressures yet, even though more cases are being treated in the emergency room.
Rumbao recalled the high percentage flu vaccination registered in Córdobawith more than 55% of children from 6 to 59 months vaccinated in Córdoba, a percentage that is 63% in the district of Guadalquivir and 57% in the district of Córdoba, more than 20 points above the Andalusian average, which is 36.9 %.
