He number of people admitted with covid-19 in conventional beds continues in an “upward trend” in Catalonia, with 489 people hospitalized in conventional plants, 36 more than the week above, according to the latest update of the Information System for Infection Surveillance in Catalonia (Sivic). In the ucis of all the territory there is only 12 persons. Although the figures for admissions are far from previous moments of the pandemic, epidemiologists such as Joan Caylà tell EL PERIÓDICO that “500 admitted in the middle of summer is worrying.”
He profile of the infected person that continues to reach hospital emergencies and primary care centers (CAP) is that of a old person, with chronic pathologies, which is decompensated by the mixture of covid-19 and heat, as confirmed by sources to this newspaper.
Between August 14 and 20, the incidence of the group of acute respiratory infections (ARI) has dropped slightly and remains at low transmission levels, with a rate of 272 affected per 100,000 inhabitants.
In total there have been registered 21,329 cases of ARI, although the Ministry of Health has clarified that the figures may be affected downwards due to the public holiday and, regarding the distribution of viruses, SARS-CoV-2 is the most frequent with 30.3% of the samples followed by rhinovirus (13.6%) and parainfluenzae (7.6%).
As for those admitted to Catalan hospitals for covid-19, 82% of hospitalized people are over 60 years of age and admissions to intensive care units (ucis) remain stable, with 12 persons in critical beds for this disease.
Yes ok pneumonia has not increased in the citizenry as a whole or admissions to the ICU linked to covid-19, Catalonia has registered an increase in conventional hospitalizations that mainly affects older people with increased risk of decompensation of basal pathologies, although the department assures that this rise has multiple causes.
Sources consulted by this newspaper assure that there is many toilets infected with covid-19 and that transmission in children is also increasing a lot, which luckily they do not get seriously ill and do not require income. But these little ones are reaching centers like Sant Joan de Déu (Esplugues de Llobregat) with fever and cough. Even so, pediatricians they don’t show concern by back to school, since, in addition to the fact that the cases are “very mild”, the majority of infections (whatever the prevalent variant) occur in home environments, trips or family gatherings, and not at school.
Not only that, pediatricians hope that this year there will be fewer respiratory infections in children because for the first time babies born this year of the respiratory syncytial virus (VRS) and from the flu to those between six months and five years.
The BA.2.86 variant
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the variant omicron of the virus represents almost 100% of the samples sequenced and the Eris variant, which was detected for the first time in Catalonia on June 8, has been detected in a total of 39 positive samples until August 11. However, Eris is not the variant that worries epidemiologists the most, but the BA.2.86, cataloged for the moment as omicron sublineage and detected for the first time in the world just five days ago last August 13
BA.2.86 includes many more mutations than its predecessors, making it a sub-variant of omicron very different to the previous ones, although the data is still scarce. In the absence of more information, scientists say that this variant is reminiscent of the “leap” which occurred at the end of 2021when the omicron appeared and displaced the delta. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the health authorities of USA announced this Friday that they are closely monitoring this new variant of covid-19, although for now the potential impact is unknown of the numerous mutations”.