Covid San Marino, the Authority’s alarm: “The data are catastrophic”
“The management protocol for schools has been drawn up in the light of catastrophic data”. To emphasize a situation at the limit with 260 positivity recorded only yesterday, Dr. Claudio Muccioli, head of the San Marino health authority. “A moment of action – he reiterates – in which intense encounters follow one another without stopping, making the necessary assessments with clarity”. One of the knots? Still having to bring data to the table to show the importance of vaccination, “despite the striking results.” In fact, those who have not been vaccinated “risk 21 times more of ending up in the Intensive”, underlining that they are “often undisciplined patients, such as the citizen who, just out of intubation, has unleashed all his anger against doctors, according to a recurring script even outside the border. Like a network whose meshes it is difficult to enlarge ». However, this situation does not stop the commitment of health professionals, including the Authority. Which in yesterday’s meeting prepared a “Protocol for the management of the opening of schools shared by the school staff to allow going to school with continuity and health”. Concept aimed at protecting also the staff, «to whom we try to avoid continuous quarantines, adopting the system embraced in general also for the population. Thus asymptomatic teachers who come into contact with a positive in the school, if they have been vaccinated or recovered for less than 120 days, will not end up in quarantine ». Under the lens, he adds, the concept of «close contact which can be spoken of above all in the maternal. And in general there are two ways to go: limiting infections while respecting all constraints and increasing the immunization rate “. All the more so because now the “functioning of the hospital is aimed at managing the health emergency, except for urgent operations”. And again: «Many resources are devoted to tracking, but with these numbers it is difficult to reach everyone. The same stumbling block – note – for the territorial Covid team must follow 1500 people of which at least a third twice a day. On 10 December we have an average of 100 cases a week, now we are at incredible numbers that the same effort of all ». I sanitary? «They are doing their utmost to sacrifice everything, without even being able to exchange a few words with their colleagues, because sometimes there are only two of them alternating in shifts. Working in these conditions is hard, there is always a hole to fill », he reiterates. Therefore a “fundamental political choice will be grafted on this basis. Not an easy transition – he acknowledges – despite such catastrophic data, while the peak of infections is looming on the horizon ». To be clear, however, he is keen to clarify “here it is not a battle against the no vax, but a battle to save everyone’s life”. Amareggia, he notes, that the no vax exploit the figures, saying that it is mainly the vaccinated who get sick. Which is obvious, given that they make up over 80% of the population. Without prejudice to the fact: those who have not undergone the vaccine get sick in a different way than those who have joined the vaccination campaign and do not end up in the Intensive. A fact on which it would be good to reflect ”, they conclude.