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Corona autumn in comparison: intensive care physician warns of "violent" next weeks - "are worse off"

2021-11-09T12:43:53.852Z


The age of intensive care patients has fallen, there are large regional differences and some people who have been vaccinated have forgotten the AHA rules: The corona situation is different from 2020.


The age of intensive care patients has fallen, there are large regional differences and some people who have been vaccinated have forgotten the AHA rules: The corona situation is different from 2020.

Hamburg - The reports are reminiscent of last year, same time.

As of November 9th, the hospitals nationwide counted around 3000 Covid-19 intensive care patients, informs the German Hospital Society (DKG).

She expects an increase to at least 4000 in the near future.

5800 was therefore the highest value at the beginning of the year.

But a lot has changed in the meantime.

“We didn't expect the situation to be like this this autumn,” said Professor Stefan Kluge in an interview with

Die Welt

.

The intensive care doctor from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf “misjudged” several things, he believes: the vaccination rate, the penetration power of the delta mutation and the “Pflexit”.

Alluding to Brexit, this means that nurses have resigned due to the corona-related additional workload.

In cities like Munich, for example, these forces could not make ends meet because of the rents.

"Above all, clinics in large cities have to block many intensive care beds due to the nationwide shortage of nursing staff, 20 to 30 percent cannot be operated," said Kluge.

Corona autumn compared to 2020: "We are worse off"

“That is why we can currently provide 4,000 fewer intensive care beds across Germany than we did a year ago,” explained the intensive care doctor.

“Intensive care beds are already a scarce resource in normal operation, i.e. without the flu or corona wave,” he explained and concluded: “We are in a much worse position than a year ago.

Our system is in need of renovation. "

The number of intensive care beds with ventilation options could be increased from 22,000 before the pandemic to more than 28,000, reports the DKG - but: “We have extremely high infection rates in children, which means that many nurses - mostly women - have to stay away from work .

This reduction in treatment places aggravates the situation noticeably, ”says Kluge, describing the situation.

Divi director Christian Karagiannidis Germany saw the number of intensive care beds “relatively well” at the beginning of the week.

In the

WDR

he also warned that stations nationwide were almost 90 percent full.

The situation is particularly tense in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.

"We have to look a lot more regionally this time," he said.

"It may be that with 3000 patients in Bavaria we have absolutely great difficulties in finding accommodation for a Covid patient."

Hospitalization rate and age of Covid-19 patients lower than 2020

The DKG sees the hospitalization rate as “far cheaper” than in autumn 2020, ie the ratio between the number of infections and hospital admissions.

The main reason for this is the high vaccination rate among the elderly.

Vaccination breakthroughs are registered “almost exclusively” in older people. 

However, while intensive care patients were on average almost 80 years old at the time, they have been younger than 50 on average since September 2021.

The average Covid-19 intensive care patient is currently unvaccinated, male, and middle-aged.

Corona situation compared to 2020: "Vaccination is not close enough to the people"

What is the most important step now? "More than three million over 60-year-olds in Germany still have no first vaccination," said Kluge in a

world

interview. “That's where we have to start.” The booster vaccination is just as important. “But first they have to find out about it. At the moment I don't see any really low-threshold vaccination offers, no advertising at the bus stops, no signs. The vaccination is not close enough to the people, ”he complained.

The next few weeks could be “heavy” and “a huge burden”.

At the moment the situation is still manageable, but he observes that many vaccinated people behave carelessly and thoughtlessly and refrain from protective measures.

"This way the virus can spread well and then hit vulnerable groups." Then you have to withdraw staff from other stations and postpone operations that can be planned: "The cake is finite."

(Frs)

Source: merkur

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