That is why recently there are more positive PCR tests – Diseases

“The headquarters is already providing more reassuring and focused information, again we are talking about the need to follow the measures, but not with the idea of ​​being afraid, but to gain an objective idea.” This was explained by Associate Prof. Dr. Spas Spaskov in “The Day Begins” at BNT.

Most likely, around 5% of people in Bulgaria are carriers of the coronavirus.says Dr. Spaskov. The higher number of people infected lately is largely due to the fact that the tests are carried out mainly in risk groups, and not, as before, when healthy people had a PCR test to travel to Greece, for example.

According to the doctor, looking only at certain categories of the population will always distort things, before we looked at the cases in medical institutions, now, in schools. Carriers of the virus will be roughly as much as for the population as a whole, believes Dr. Spaskov.

Nursing homes are much more vulnerable to the virusBecause the danger to people is that they are carriers of many other diseases and are much more vulnerable to secondary infections, the only problem in schools is that children can transmit the infection to their grandparents, Dr. Spaskov said.

We need to keep a stock of masks and other protective materials, and this has been proven during this pandemic, not on a day-to-day basis, as the system used to do.. And the connection between the different parts of the system must be improved: GPs, hospitals, medical centers, etc.

I expect a peak in the fall, because most chronic diseases will be unlocked and hospitals will resume their true role of treating all patients, not just focusing on one disease, said Dr. Spas Spaskov. At the same time, the problem with the standard flu epidemic will appear, the doctor added.

Hospital infectious disease wards should not be financed on a patient-by-patient basisBecause there patients come in waves and, according to Dr. Spaskov, the question of exactly how to fund these rooms will soon become clear.