The number of new corona infections has been increasing for weeks: On average, infected people are admitted to hospital after eight days. But the situation seems calm. Why?
- The number of infections with the coronavirus * is currently increasing daily - many travelers returning are also affected.
- But despite the increasing numbers, the situation in the hospitals seems calm.
- Experts blame two main factors for this - but they should not calm down.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the coronavirus *, the Germany news and a map with the current number of cases in Germany.
Munich - It is the image of hard curfews , overcrowded hospitals and corpses that can no longer be removed that pops up in people's minds when there is talk of a " second wave " - and this wave is currently hotly debated: Is it there, is she coming, is she not coming?
With new infections over 1000, then over 1200 and 1400, the number of registered values was recently higher day by day - for some doctors or politicians this is already the beginning of a second wave. Around eight to 15 days after the infection, some patients with severe courses develop hyperinflation syndrome, according to the RKI profile , which can lead to multiple organ failure - if you factor in this time span, the situation in the hospitals should already be clearly tense. But as the RKI intensive care registry shows, the intensive care units are currently not overloaded - according to the interactive map from the Berliner Morgenpost, 63 of 1217 intensive care units in Germany are overloaded, and a total of only 223 people would receive intensive care because of Covid-19. This good news can be tied to two factors.
Coronavirus: Overload of the intensive care units? The death rate is falling
According to the RKI, the overall mortality rate is 4.2 percent - according to Welt, this is due to the fact that it was around seven percent at the beginning of the pandemic in February and March. Currently, according to the world, only less than one percent of all those infected with the coronavirus also die from it.
In addition, significantly more is currently being tested - and the number of cases determined is therefore in a different relationship to the situation in the hospitals than in March. About one percent of all test results are positive (an increase compared to the previous weeks), but about seven percent of all tests were positive in March.
Uwe Janssens in WDR @aktuelle_stunde from 08/10/2020. The hospitals in NRW / Germany are prepared for possibly increasing numbers of infections with # SARS_CoV_2https: //t.co/Po1VGzipgA
- DIVI eV (@DIVI_eV) August 11, 2020Coronavirus: More younger people infected - but there is a catch
Further evaluations by the RKI show that the proportion of 15 to 13-year-olds among those who tested officially positive is particularly high - and the proportion of those from older age groups who are more likely to have a severe course is much lower.
But while this is really good news at first, which can also take some fear out of the debate, reports from seriously ill young people also show that young people without previous illnesses can also suffer from severe courses in individual cases. There is also another parallel to February: Back then, too, it was mainly young people who brought the virus with them from abroad - and it spread quickly among the population. Hopefully the protective measures will now work. (kat / Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network .)