How sick is Munich after the Wiesn?
The Corona numbers will only show that from today.
The situation in the hospitals is already tense.
This is one of the reasons why the video of a Wiesn waitress who was sick in the tent caused trouble.
A video is currently going through the roof on the Internet, to which many people react with anger and incomprehension.
It shows the beer tent waitress Eva, who, as she says herself, has worked with a fever, sore throat and chills for the last three days of the Oktoberfest.
She explains that all her colleagues are sick.
"But we don't have to test ourselves.
And if you don't test yourself, you're not positive either." Corona madness, which goes well with the situation after the Oktoberfest.
Because: While the virus is raging in the city, the incidence on paper fell on Tuesday.
How sick Munich really is remains to be seen.
Numbers drop on Tuesday - probably because of the reporting system
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) expects the numbers to increase further.
"We will then see more severe courses with a delay of maybe ten to fourteen days and then also a load in the intensive care units," he said on the television program Frühstart.
The fact that the incidence fell from 766.8 to 633.6 on Tuesday is probably due to the reporting system and the holiday effect.
The health authorities did not report any cases to the Robert Koch Institute on Monday or at the weekend, but the numbers from last Monday are out of the system.
In all likelihood, the incidence will increase on Wednesday.
Incidence quadrupled since Oktoberfest began
This is also what Dr.
Christoph Spinner, infectiologist at the University Hospital Rechts der Isar.
Experts like him had expected the numbers to skyrocket with the start of the Wiesn.
The number of unreported cases is high because only PCR tests are officially recorded.
But even this shows: “Incidences in the city area have quadrupled: A two to fourfold increase in incidence was also reported at other folk festivals.” For Spinner there is no reason to worry: “The incidence no longer plays such a significant role .” Much more important is the number of seriously ill Covid patients in the clinics.
And that has increased by 70 percent since last week: from 23 to 39 occupied beds in the intensive care units.
If you add up all the Corona beds, which are currently 478, there is an increase of 137 percent.
According to health officer Beatrix Zurek, it will not stay that way: "We expect the number of cases to increase again significantly and the peak in hospital admissions has not yet been reached." The situation is made more difficult by more and more patients with respiratory diseases, employees themselves are due to Corona from: The hospitals are under pressure.
