Mônica Bergamo: Covid cases explode and flu fall in private hospitals in SP

The HCor hospital, in SP, recorded on Tuesday (4) the highest volume of emergency room visits in its history. Of 388 patients who sought help, 252 had flu-like symptoms.

WAITING ROOM

The hospital says that the number of visits continues to grow, day after day. On the previous Wednesday (29), the number of patients was 153.

DOMAIN

The epidemiological profile of the cases was reversed: if on December 22 the H3N2 influenza virus was responsible for about 40% of care, while Covid-19 remained below 10%, in the last two days the rate of infected by the coronavirus reached at 43%.

HIGH

The HCor still recorded a 175% jump in the number of patients hospitalized with Covid in the last week. He went from eight to 22 patients.

AVERAGE

The samples with a positive result for influenza have varied from 8% to 13% in the collections of the last three days.

REPETITION

The alarming picture is repeated in other private hospitals in the capital of São Paulo – as well as the predominance of the coronavirus over the influenza virus.

JUMP

Confirmed cases of Covid-19 at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein jumped from 1,665 between December 19 and 25 to 2,697 by January 1. Flu diagnoses fell from 2,781 to 1,450. At Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, the daily volume of patients with respiratory symptoms in the emergency room quadrupled when compared to the first and last week of December.

UPHILL

In the respiratory symptomatic group, Covid-19 patients jumped from an average of 1.5% at the beginning of the month to 33%. And influenza diagnoses went from 10% to 30%.

UNDER CONTROL

Of the patients seen in December by Oswaldo Cruz, only 3% required hospitalization, 99.3% of them in apartments and 0.7% in the ICU.

ON THE NETWORKS

_{with LIGIA MOSQUE, VICTORIA AZEVEDO, BIANKA VIEIRA e MANOELLA SMITH}