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The number of corona cases in Germany is increasing; the number of deaths has not yet occurred. However, doctors also expect more victims here. Another event worries them too.
Intensive care physicians expect the number of corona deaths in Germany to continue to grow. “The number of deaths will continue to rise in the coming weeks,” Uwe Janssens, president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), told the Funke media group newspapers on Saturday. The increasing number of deaths from Covid 19 reflects the increasing number of infections in recent weeks.
It usually takes 10 to 14 days from initial infection to severe illness, and the average time in the intensive care unit is 21 to 24 days. It follows that many people who are now dying were infected more than five weeks ago. In recent days, the number of deaths reported by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in relation to a corona infection has been in the double-digit range several times in a row.
Don’t just look at corona deaths
However, Janssens does not anticipate such a dramatic development as in the spring: “Intensive care physicians today know much more about successful treatment options and can intervene more specifically with medications.” In addition, those responsible have learned to better protect especially vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and the sick.
Janssens emphasized that not only the immediate deaths were part of the balance of the pandemic. “In addition to the people who die from and with the coronavirus, we must not forget those who continue to die because they do not dare to go to doctors’ offices and clinics for fear of being infected.” The total number of indirect deaths will only be quantified years later, when all the long-term consequences of the pandemic can be estimated.
