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Specialist Li:
Emergency call at night
The new infections reported every day, the proportion of positive test results, the dwindling number of vacant intensive care beds, all of this illustrates how serious the situation is for the health system at the moment.
The Divi Intensive Care Register shows the daily number of patients who are in intensive care.
There were 5216 patients on Tuesday, 481 more than a week earlier.
A new high, again.
The tightened shutdown, the tough contact restrictions, including at Christmas, all have one goal: to avoid overloading German hospitals.
And can no longer care for all seriously ill.
But the number of infected people continues to rise.
Clinics in Munich and Cologne recently reported overcrowded intensive care units.
In more than twenty districts there were recently no free intensive care beds.
In mid-December, Dresdner Kliniken had made an appeal to the population;
they feared conditions like those in Bergamo or New York in the spring.
At that time there were reports of patients who had suffocated from a lack of ventilation places.
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