Germany is in the second lockdown.
It is currently recommended to self-quarantine.
An emergency doctor in Essen fears bad things.
Emergency doctor Carola Holzner with bad fears about Christmas.
Young people are also in intensive care units with the corona virus.
The next corona wave is suspected after the Christmas holidays.
Essen -
Germany has been in the second lockdown
since
December 16
.
Overcrowded cities and shops can no longer be thought of in the current corona pandemic.
Nevertheless, work in hospitals and especially in intensive care units is in full swing.
The number of infections is increasing
.
Patients in the intensive care units need help and need to be looked after around the clock.
The Christmas holidays
are getting closer and closer - but there is no anticipation of a contemplative celebration, especially in clinics and hospitals.
Emergency doctor Carola Holzner is the senior physician in charge of the central emergency room north of the university hospital in Essen.
She has worries and great fears that Christmas could get even worse.
Corona: Emergency doctor reports - patients from young to old in the intensive care units
Anyone who thinks that only
elderly or previously ill people
can be infected with the coronavirus is wrong.
Emergency doctor Carola Holzner comments on this statement: “What does that mean:
It only affects the elderly?
When meeting means to be intubated on a lung replacement machine in an intensive care unit in the prone position requiring ventilation, then - statistically speaking - an increasing number of older people from the risk group are lying there, ”she explains in an interview with
Focus
.
“Nonetheless,
young people who are not previously ill are also in intensive care units,
” warns the senior doctor.
After all, every day she sees the patients who come to the intensive care units and need treatment.
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Corona: Emergency doctor clarifies the severe consequential damage of the corona virus
The
coronavirus affects us all, worldwide
.
Life and everyday life are restricted.
Simple meetings with family and friends, concerts and trips can currently no longer be planned so easily.
"I think that
everyday restrictions
that lead to the fact that you can no longer live a normal life that you could live before, because of Corona, is just as much a 'meeting' for me," says Holzner.
The consequential damage that Covid-19 leaves behind is also an issue that doctors and researchers work on every day.
Because: general
statements and effects of the virus
cannot simply be made, but have to be researched again and again through constant re-examinations.
At the beginning of the year and at the start of the first coronavirus wave, the first consequential damage could still be seen: "There are
heart diseases, myocarditis, but also permanent shortness of breath, persistent breathing difficulties, burning sensation, taste disorders, thromboses
or the like have been described", explains the senior doctor.
Corona fear at Christmas: Holidays are causing emergency doctor Carola Holzner great concern
“I'm curious to see whether other things will emerge from the high number of infections,” admits Holzner.
But the mere statement that there is consequential damage should give us pause.
We should pay more attention to our surroundings and our fellow human beings.
The emergency doctor is very worried about the
Christmas holidays
- the reason: after the holidays, however, the number of cases could continue to rise from the emergency doctor's point of view: “I believe that - and we all have to touch our own nose - we often get our own Put interests above the general public. "The greatest concern and fear of
emergency doctor Carola Holzner
:" And I think the hammer only comes then, about
14 days to three weeks after the Christmas holidays and after New Year's Eve
.
I'm really excited about that, ”said Holzner.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, 1,454,009 people in Germany have been infected with the virus (as of December 18).
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