The association of intensive care physicians warns of increasing numbers of intensive care patients - and calls for a return to the hard corona lockdown.
The result of the
federal-state consultations
were
corona
relaxations
* in Germany
at the beginning of March
.
Experts such as
Karl Lauterbach are
already calling for
drastic measures
by
Easter
to contain the pandemic.
Now
intensive care
physicians are also expressing themselves
- and calling for an immediate
return
to
lockdown
.
Frankfurt -
Intensive care doctors
in
Germany are
calling for a radical return to the
corona lockdown
.
The reason is the renewed increase in the number of infections with Sars-CoV-2, according to the experts.
"From the data that we now have and see, and with the British mutant prevailing, we would strongly advocate going into lockdown again immediately to simply prevent a strong third wave," explained Christian Karagiannidis, Scientific Director of the Association of Intensive Care Physicians, on Monday the "RBB".
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Intensive care doctors in Germany are calling for a radical return to the corona lockdown.
(Archive photo)
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Karagiannidis insisted in the interview that the
"emergency brake" agreed
in the
federal-state talks should be
implemented.
This provides for
corona restrictions
from an incidence value of 100 in the respective district - and would be
equivalent
to a renewed
lockdown
.
The expert warns: "Otherwise we would now again
5000
,
6000 patients
seen in the ICU."
Corona: Doctors are calling for an immediate lockdown return
Part of the currently increasing number of
corona cases
in
Germany
is the now widespread
mutant B.1.1.7
from Great Britain.
With a view to this development, the doctor said: “We won't gain much if we leave the next week or two open because we will reach a high level very quickly and it will be twice as difficult at the high level of to get the numbers down again. ”
Solutions
are
to vaccinate
risk groups
as quickly as possible and to
test
more and more people
.
In this way, around 50 to 60 percent of infections would be discovered before they
could cause
a
severe course of Covid-19
.
"Save for the summer" - Corona exposure high in the intensive care unit
According to Karagiannidis, the strain on the staff in the intensive care units of the clinics remains high.
In this regard, it is important to
“save yourself into the summer”.
As mentioned, the hope lies in progressive vaccinations against the coronavirus.
In addition to the Association of Intensive Care Physicians, various experts had also
criticized
possible
corona easing
in Germany.
Health politician
Karl Lauterbach
, for example, called for all schools to close again by Easter. * "I appeal to the federal states to close all schools again by Easter, including primary schools," he told the Rheinische Post.
The background to his demand is the development of corona mutants.
Various virus mutations would “spread rapidly among the younger generation” in particular. Schools without opening up a systematic test strategy had been a mistake.
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The intensive care physicians are calling for a return to the corona lockdown.
(Archive photo)
© Jens Büttner / dpa
On Monday, the
Robert Koch Institute reported
more than 6600
new infections
in
Germany
. * (Tu / dpa)
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