Thank you for your update DR!
We were all waiting for it.
I got bad news from Italy.
Hospitalizations and ICU increased again today.
We got
+ 978 new positive cases
+ 8 deaths
+ 13 ICU (new total is 107)
+ 105 hospitalizations (new total is 1.380)
+ 300 recovered
Quoting: Leonero Bad news?
What about the days when there were 5000 positive cases and 2,000 deaths ?
Caution is a good thing, always seeing the bad side of everything is a disease.
"disease" is a bit strong choice of words...
Btw my opinion was based on the constant icrease of ICU and hospitalizations during a very sweet season in Italy (summer in Italy use to kill elder people because of high temperatures, not for a "flu-like" virus).
I am starting to be pessimistic because some hospitals started again to delay medical check for chronic diseases
[one, for example, is the well-known Spallanzani hospital. It was the first hospital that started to study Covid-19. It has been "converted" in a Covid center].
And italian health system is still processing all the medical checks that were delayed during lockdown months.
We use to look at the pandemic as a single and "isolated" issue, but when a Health System is overwhelmed, all people with chronic or newly diagnosed disease won't be able to get the services they need.
This eventuality may lead to an higher death toll which is not mentioned on newspapers and media.
(think about oncologic patients, people with heart disease, and so on).
This, of course, is my opinion, my personal expectation for the near future... Hope it won't happen.
