Corona in Germany: Drosten explains worst-case scenario - intensive care physician contradicts directly

Intensive care medicine could reach its limits due to the high number of corona infections.

In this context, Christian Drosten explains the bad scenario of triage.

• The

  coronavirus infection numbers *

  are at a high in Germany.

• Christian Drosten

  now explained that the many new infections can trigger a "triage situation" in intensive care medicine.

• Intensive care physician Uwe Janssens

  heavily criticized these warnings on Tuesday.

Update from November 3, 3:30 p.m.:

Intensive care physician

has

strongly criticized

the drastic prognoses of the

regarding a possible triage in intensive care units.

Drosten had

warned

in the famous

the

of the dire scenario of a "

", i.e. classifying or weighing up the injured, for example in order

to distribute

insufficient

to coronavirus patients and to decide about life and death.

(see example below)

The

President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (

), Uwe

, told the

on Tuesday: “Mr. Drosten is a first-class virologist and one of the most important experts we currently have in fighting pandemics.

However

, I can

his

about a possible

in Germany and I

”.

Despite the shortage of staff, one is far from such a situation, explained Janssens further, "By warning against them in this way, he

people

."

Intensive care physician criticizes Drosten's triage warnings: "irresponsible"

It is probably a reaction from Mr. Janssens to one of the shortened and distorted representations of my statements.

https://t.co/0Wqbqy9k19

- Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) November 3, 2020

Janssen's subsequent sentence

* should stay out of the discussion about capacity

bottlenecks

in intensive care units,

himself

finally

reached via

.

The star virologist, however, expressed himself soothingly: "It is probably a

from Mr. Janssens to one of the shortened and distorted reproductions of my statements."

In his podcast, Drosten himself emphasized that he was “not directly afraid” of the virus, but that he felt “a lot of respect”.

He had explained the triage model in general, but warned that such situations could arise if the number of infections continued to rise at the current level.

Corona wave "runs with brutal violence": Drosten explains the worst-case scenario and gives hope for improvement

First report from November 2nd:

Munich - As of Monday, the German population will have to

bow

to a

against the

.

This was

initiated

due to a new high in

by the end of November - the

reported 95,000 infected people in the last seven days.

How necessary the “

” actually is,

now

explained

during a lecture in

, near his north German hometown Lingen.

The

considers the current

to be more threatening than the first.

In the spring, the virus developed from hotspots such as the

.

Since it was possible to act locally in these cases, it was easier to contain the spread.

Currently, however, the infection process is "oppressive and with brutal violence".

It comes from everywhere.

Coronavirus: Christian Drosten warns of a "triage" situation

Accordingly, Drosten warned of

a bad scenario

with regard to

.

In just a few weeks, this could reach its

limits

everywhere

if the infection rate was persistently so high.

In the worst case, a so-called “

”

could even

arise.

Using an example, the virologist explained:

“We have a patient in the intensive care unit who is old and he has been there for a week.

He has a chance of survival of 30 to 50 percent - maybe, depending on the situation, 60 - and then comes a patient who is 35 and has three small children and he has the same disease and has a difficult course and if you don't, now connect it to a ventilator and the day after tomorrow he will be dead. As an intensive care doctor, you know that.

What do you do?

You have to put one of the elderly patients off.

That's what triage means. "

Coronavirus: Christian Drosten cautiously gives hope for a vaccine

For this reason, the

would have called

the measures, that is, a “socially necessary intervention” that we now have.

Nevertheless, Drosten emphasized that he was “not directly afraid” of the virus, but that he was “very respectful”.

“It's a disease I don't want to have”.

After all: The 48-year-old also made hope for a

.

“I do think that the first approvals could come at the beginning of the year - internationally, maybe even in Europe and Germany.” However, it would take some time before the majority of the population could be vaccinated.

Only in summer could there be a sufficient amount of the substance.

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