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Lock door to an intensive care unit for corona patients in Greifswald
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Jens Büttner / dpa
First of all, it is good news that intensive care physicians are announcing with a view to all of Germany: After the number of new corona infections in Germany stabilized at a high level almost two weeks ago, the number of patients treated in an intensive care unit is also increasing need not be so strong anymore.
"We're coming to a plateau," said Uwe Janssens, head of the intensive care medicine association Divi, at an online conference on Wednesday.
According to the Divi Register (as of 2.12.) 3957 patients are currently in intensive care, 2353 of them (59 percent) are ventilated.
In Germany, a total of 22,270 intensive care beds are occupied and 5,273 free.
Because a severe course of Covid 19 disease usually only shows up with some delay, these patients end up in an intensive care unit on average ten days after registering their infection.
"Our experience shows that around one to two percent of those infected require intensive care," said Janssens, "if we have 20,000 new infections today, we must assume that 200 to 400 new patients will come to our intensive care units in ten days."
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