Final furioso of the pandemic: intensive care beds almost occupied, experts suspect huge numbers of unreported cases

The incidence in the county is staggering.

Dr.

Jörg Lohse even suspects that it is twice as high as known.

The intensive care beds are full.

And yet reports of corona parties are making the rounds.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - An incidence of 236 (as of Wednesday): That's a lot.

According to Dr.

Jörg Lohse, Corona coordinator in the district, the real value is much higher.

“We have to start from double that,” says the Münsingen general practitioner.

Citizens who do not even notice the disease are not included in the bill.

Those that cannot be tested.

Corona in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Expert suspects a huge number of unreported cases - intensive care beds are becoming scarce

And finally, all those that the health department, which is working at the limit of its capacity, has not yet recorded.

"This is now the furioso finale," says Lohse.

"The Delta variant eats its way through."

There are rumors that young people are partying in villages in order to consciously contract the virus.

The absurd thought behind it: That way you will soon be behind you and no longer have to pay for the expensive PCR tests.

Lohse does not want to comment on this any further.

“Maybe being unreasonable is just part of the youth,” he says.

The whole thing reminds him of the first wave in the USA, where exactly such parties were celebrated in front of the camera.

“It went so far that the first one almost died in front of the camera,” says Lohse.

"But these are exactly the stories that no pig today would want to hear anymore."

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Jörg Lohse

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Third-party vaccinations, PCR tests and symptoms: Corona determines the everyday life of doctors

For the native Thuringian, the current situation is an absolute challenge.

"For us doctors, the upper edge of the lower lip is just now," he says.

Corona determines his everyday life again, from the PCR tests for sniffing children in the morning to the infection consultation from 11 a.m. to home visits for third-party vaccinations and vaccinations on Saturday.

Whereby it is good to be mentally robust.

Namely when all of a sudden corona deniers are seriously ill, and so are their whole family.

"You just have to stay calm and matter-of-fact."

When is the corona wave over?

Certainly not before Easter, says the expert

How long does the whole thing drag on?

“Safe until Easter,” predicts Lohse.

"At Pentecost, at least here in Germany, we should have survived the pandemic." He hopes that as many people as possible will still be vaccinated.

The 3G rule, which in his opinion could have been introduced earlier, has already achieved something, as has the currently dizzying number of infections.

"But there can be no question of a steep curve either."

Corona patients in intensive care units: "It is getting tight" in the clinics

Dr.

Martin Dotzer, responsible for the occupancy of the intensive care beds in the clinics in the three districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfrathausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Weilheim-Schongau, is concerned.

“It's getting tight,” he says.

This is actually astonishing, because the Murnau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen Accident Clinic means that his area of ​​responsibility has a disproportionately large number of intensive care beds;

This is no longer the case.

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“The problem is that the nursing staff is running out,” says Dotzer.

"Many have left the system." The 80 percent of occupied intensive care beds that are common in everyday life are not a problem. But now another 15 percent are occupied by Covid 19 patients.

"By then we are already approaching the edge of what is still feasible," says Dotzer.

Nothing works in Munich and the neighboring districts either.

There would be free capacities in Northern Bavaria.

Of course, this does not meet with enthusiasm among patients or relatives.

Corona traffic light applies to all of Bavaria - local pandemic events are excluded

Another problem for the doctor is that the corona traffic light is too broad.

"It lights up for the whole of Bavaria and does not take local conditions into account." If there were a traffic light for his area of ​​responsibility, it would have been red for a long time.

Dotzer emphatically appeals to citizens who have not yet been vaccinated: "It cannot be said often enough: vaccination protects against severe courses."