Chief Physician: Maybe Corona will soon be over - the number of patients is still increasing

Created: 2022-02-09 17:34

By: Josef Ametsbichler

Goggles in the intensive care unit of the district clinic.

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Despite the leveling off of the corona incidence, the number of patients at the clinic is currently increasing.

Doctors also make encouraging observations.

Ebersberg

- "I don't know what it would be like without vaccination," says Peter Lemberger, pandemic officer and intensive care physician at the Ebersberg district clinic.

The chief physician is currently observing a flattening but sustained increase in the number of Covid patients in his house.

Despite the stagnating incidence, he says with a view to the Erding-Freising-Ebersberg rescue association: "The hospitalizations are increasing."

According to the clinic, 29 patients were in the corona or suspected corona ward on Wednesday, some of them for other reasons, the positive test a “bycatch”.

Not quite half are fully vaccinated.

"Most of the time, the vaccination was a long time ago," says Lemberger about this part.

“Only very occasionally” would boosted patients come into the house.

Two ventilation patients – “not many” given the current number of cases

Two people, both previously ill, are being ventilated in the intensive care unit.

"The incidences are not many," says the chief physician.

Vaccination is one thing, the apparently milder infection with the omicron variant is another.

What has remained the same, however, is that the virus is now also catching younger patients – often those with bronchitis, cardiovascular histories or smokers.

The age range is from those born in 1978 to those born in 1928. Since the end of January, three people over 80 have died of their Covid disease, and one patient has been vaccinated.

The virus can affect anyone, but protective measures help

"The measures are the be-all and end-all," says the chief physician about distance, mask, vaccination.

Without protective measures, much higher numbers are conceivable.

"The omicron variant is just brutally contagious." Which means that the virus colonizes the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and can be detected there, but often, especially in those who have been boosted, does not trigger any symptoms.

"We probably have to get used to the fact that this can happen to any of us," says Lemberger.

According to the doctor, the development is difficult to estimate.

"Maybe a new variant will come - or maybe it'll be over in a few weeks."

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