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Corona: intensive care patient was "simply afraid of the vaccination"

2021-10-27T10:38:10.877Z


Most Covid patients in intensive care units are not vaccinated. In the Bochum University Clinic St. Josef, the free beds are running out. The doctors are preparing for the second harsh winter.


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She did it.

At least in the normal infirmary.

Liane Meermann-Hölscher struggled on Monday in the intensive care unit of the St. Josef University Hospital in Bochum with Covid-19 - unvaccinated.

Liane Meermann-Hölscher, corona patient:


“I was scared, I was just scared of the vaccination.

Through the media hype, one says so, the other says so.

As for myself, I already had cerebral bleeding and was afraid that I would get another brain thrombosis.

And that's why I pulled it out until it was no longer possible.

And I was just scared of the vaccination.

And now I see that it would have been or is appropriate after all. "

Most Covid patients who have to go to hospital in Germany with a severe course are unvaccinated, like Ms. Meermann-Hölscher.

Renate Schlottmann, St. Josef Hospital Bochum:


“In the intensive care unit in particular, we see unvaccinated patients in over 90 percent of the cases.

So the patients who have a severe course of the disease are usually not vaccinated.

And the vaccination protects against a serious course of the disease in over 90 percent of cases. "

According to the university clinic in Bochum, there are increasingly also very old people among the severe courses, who have had their vaccination a long time ago and who have lost their vaccination protection accordingly.

Whether booster or first vaccination - doctors never tire of advertising for immunization against the coronavirus.

Renate Schlottmann, Infectiologist at St. Josef Hospital Bochum:


“Well, you just can't understand it from a medical point of view.

We got a vaccination in such a short time that works very, very well - and that it is still simply not noticed by individual people.

We would strongly recommend getting vaccinated, especially with regard to autumn and winter, for people who have not yet been vaccinated, i.e. from 12 years of age upwards. "

From the point of view of intensive care physicians, a discussion about a Freedom Day or signals to the population that »it's over« is incomprehensible.

On the contrary.

Christoph Hanefeld, Head of the St. Josef Hospital Bochum:


“It seemed to be taking a back seat, but when you followed the whole situation, including abroad, it was clear that it was a phase in which you heard little.

But now comes exactly what we actually feared.

The fourth wave is coming and we are also feeling it here in the clinic. "

So it's the second Corona winter, the numbers are skyrocketing again.

The Robert Koch Institute reported more than 23,000 new corona infections on Wednesday.

The incidence rose to 118. A week ago it was 80.4.


According to the Divi intensive care register, there were still 15 free intensive care beds in all of Bochum on Wednesday.

In the university clinic, four are occupied with Covid patients.

Even if, or precisely because the number of Covid patients in intensive care units has been increasing continuously for two weeks, it now says:

Christoph Hanefeld, Head of the St. Josef Hospital Bochum:


“Don't panic, don't even give up, it's now a few more months since we have to carry out these normal, known measures.

Vaccination helps, so efforts in this area must be continued.

But I believe that it also works well in the setting we have in Germany. "

Source: spiegel

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