Well over 30,000 new infections - it is the highest value since the beginning of the Corona.
Did All Saints' Day cause concentrated reports?
There are calls for help from many clinics in Upper Bavaria.
Munich - These are words that you didn't hope to hear, but Stefan Huber, Managing Director of the Ebersberg District Clinic, utters them: “We are facing an intensive collapse!” The clinic reported seven corona intensive care patients requiring ventilation on Thursday - more than ever before since the beginning of the pandemic.
Five patients come from outside the district because there is a lack of intensive care beds almost everywhere.
The risk of collapse, says Huber, applies beyond Ebersberg to southeast Bavaria, and probably to all of Upper Bavaria.
The clinic was recently offered a transfer bed in Ulm.
The reluctance of politics in this situation is difficult to understand.
Corona in Bavaria: "In Munich the situation is becoming more challenging every day"
The message from the Munich University Clinic on the right of the Isar also sounds drastic. "We can currently only compensate for the strain by operating restrictions and have begun to reduce routine interventions and close the first operating theaters in order to maintain supplies when there is a shortage of staff," says Dr. Christoph Spinner, pandemic officer at the hospital. "The hospitals in the south of Bavaria are already looking for support - and the situation in Munich is becoming more challenging every day."
Southern Upper Bavaria, it is currently the nationwide focal point. In the district of Miesbach, the seven-day incidence rose to a new Germany-wide high of 715.7. There are also great concerns in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district. The seven-day incidence is 299.1. Dr. Karin Kübler is the head of the health authority. “We're going under,” she says. “We no longer have an overview, and that cannot be glossed over.” The health department last registered 128 new infections in one day - a new record. "We have an exponential growth, a considerable backlog in the data collection, contact persons can hardly be determined any more", says Kübler, "even the contact with the infected persons is only possible with a delay."
Five Bavarian districts have exceeded the incidence of 500, including Mühldorf and Traunstein.
The national average of 234.8 is well above the national average of 154.5.
Accordingly, the number of corona fatalities in Bavaria is very high: The Robert Koch Institute reported 38 new deaths in the Free State on Thursday.
Corona increases occupancy in Bavaria's hospitals - the vaccination rate is also to blame
One of the reasons for the development in hospitals is the below-average vaccination rate in Bavaria.
According to the federal vaccination dashboard, 66.5 percent of the population have been vaccinated at least once - this is the lowest rate in the old federal states.
In northern Germany the quotas are over 70, in Bremen over 80 percent.
The situation in the hospitals there is currently less critical.
In numerous rural districts and independent cities in Bavaria with high seven-day incidences and high clinic occupancy, the regulations of a red traffic light or requirements with similar consequences already apply. This includes the entire administrative district of Lower Bavaria and several districts of Upper Bavaria, as well as the independent city of Rosenheim. The intensive care units in the city and district of Landshut, among others, are fully occupied. Mayor Alexander Putz called on the population in dramatic words to vaccinate: "The worst time since the beginning of the pandemic is imminent," said Putz according to Bayerischer Rundfunk. "Think of the whole of society and show solidarity."
To motivate unvaccinated people to be vaccinated and to have as many third-party vaccinations as possible: This is also the way for Christoph Spinner from Rechts der Isar.
"That is what matters now," he told our newspaper.
The majority of the patients are unvaccinated, but also patients with declining vaccination protection sometimes suffered severe courses.
And it doesn't just affect the old.
In the Rechts der Isar, the youngest intensive care patient is currently 32 years old.
Dr.
Axel Fischer, head of the Munich Clinic, sees standard care at risk, for example in the case of heart attack or cancer patients.
"We still have postponed operations that we now wanted to catch up," Fischer told our newspaper.
60 beds are currently occupied by Covid patients, 22 of them in the intensive care and monitoring ward.
With a few exceptions, the patients are not vaccinated.
Corona exacerbates hospital misery - too few nursing staff for years
If you look at the number of intensive care beds, one thing is noticeable: there are around 4,000 fewer nationwide than a year ago.
However, reactivating these capacities seems difficult.
If there was already a shortage of staff back then, many nurses switched jobs during the pandemic.
“The limiting factor is not the beds, but the nursing staff,” confirms Fischer.
Spinner from the right of the Isar also says: “There have been no reserves for months.
Basically, the available resources can only be redistributed.
It is now important that all clinics participate jointly in the supply.
"We can only do that together."
Professor Uwe Gerd Liebert, virologist at the University Clinic Leipzig, considers it conceivable, but by no means certain, to get through the Corona winter without further restrictions if the applicable hygiene rules are complied with.
New virus variants can be expected.
"Furthermore, strict compliance with the hygiene rules must not be neglected."
The district clinic Ebersberg and the Inn-Klinikum with its locations Altötting, Mühldorf, Burghausen and Haag have closed their doors to visitors in response to the increasing corona load.
The only exceptions are for accompanying the dying and for women who give birth to a child.
A few months ago, Bavaria's top hospital representative spoke to us about the corona situation, trickery and the lack of care.
