It happens that on the very threshold of death, before having to be intubated, patients with Covid-19 fiercely deny having been infected by the virus.
After eighteen months spent relentlessly fighting the disease, bitterness and discouragement point in the health report given by Gerhard Schneider, head of the intensive care unit of the Munich MRI clinic.
“Here is one of the characteristics of this fourth wave compared to the first. The skepticism is such among some of my patients that, even if they are affected, they deny and say: "Yes I am seriously ill but I do not have the Covid." When you try to deploy all your medical professionalism to make a diagnosis and when in front of you, someone answers you most clearly: "It does not concern me, I do not have that", it is is emotionally exhausting ”
, admits the doctor, who shows one of the two intensive care units of this large hospital, attached to
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