What does the vaccination do?
Secret numbers from intensive care units published
Created: 2022-01-27 05:38
By: Patrick Mayer
At the forefront of Corona: a nurse prepares for her assignment in an intensive care unit.
(Symbol photo) © Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
A report lists the number of corona intensive care patients in a city of millions.
The difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated is enormous.
Munich/Vienna – The coronavirus pandemic has now lasted almost two years.
If you look back far longer than the 24 months mentioned, no topic presumably dominated the social debate more than vaccination against an opponent and pathogen that is invisible - but does not forgive any negligence.
What are vaccinations against Corona?
Austria – Numbers from intensive care units illustrate the difference
A question is sometimes raised: How much do the vaccinations against Corona really do?
Science declares in unison: a lot.
Many medical professionals agree: a lot.
Most politicians say: a lot.
And yet there are still vaccination skeptics or even opponents.
Meanwhile, the nurses are still at the forefront.
They are used in the intensive care units, between ventilators, a disinfection marathon and physical exhaustion.
Since the Omicron variant is currently rampant throughout Europe in what feels like the umpteenth wave, they are once again challenged.
But what do the statistics from the intensive care units say?
How many unvaccinated are there?
What proportion are vaccinated - despite vaccination?
The news portal oe24.at
(behind a payment barrier) and the daily newspaper
ÖSTERREICH
have now published solid figures
.
In focus: Vienna, capital of Austria of the same name.
And that with more than 1.9 million inhabitants and huge hospitals.
Corona vaccinations: comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated people in intensive care units in Vienna
For classification: The second calendar week in January served as a comparison period for the occupancy in the intensive care units of the Danube metropolis for the report:
Hospitalized in Vienna: | Second calendar week in January: |
fully vaccinated corona patients in intensive care | 2 |
unvaccinated Covid patients in intensive care unit | 48 |
Proportion of unvaccinated corona patients in intensive care | 96 percent |
fully vaccinated corona patients on normal ward | 13 |
unvaccinated Covid patients on normal ward | 148 |
Percentage of unvaccinated corona patients in normal wards | 92 percent |
Note: In the report by oe24.at, the occupancy of Viennese intensive care units in the second calendar week in January with corona patients was examined.
The proportion of seriously ill corona patients who were not vaccinated against the virus in advance was therefore much higher than the number of vaccinated people who required intensive medical care because of an infection.
In the video: Unvaccinated overcrowded intensive care units in Austria
It is not an isolated example: the TV channel
PULS 24
had already reported at the end of November that unvaccinated people were overcrowding the intensive care units throughout Austria.
“More than 30 percent of the intensive care bed capacities are currently being used up with corona patients.
619 people are fighting for their lives there at this moment - and the trend is rising.
And three-quarters of them are unvaccinated,” said a news post, which was also released as a video (see above).
Austria's intensive care units: many more unvaccinated than vaccinated
Of the 584 corona patients in the Austrian intensive care units, 156 patients (26.7 percent) were vaccinated against the virus at this time.
73.3 percent of the Covid patients (428) who needed intensive medical treatment between Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz were therefore not vaccinated.
"This graphic shows very clearly: The vaccination protects very well against a severe course," the report said at the time.
The trend seems to have intensified now.
(pm)
