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The rapid increase in the number of deaths in our country in recent days is alarming, since from November 1 to November 8, 159 of our fellow citizens lost their lives due to complications from the coronavirus.
In the last 48 hours, 69 people -34 on Saturday and 35 on Sunday- “died”, being record figures for the victims that have been registered daily in our country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Professor Gikas Majorkinis, during the information session on the evolution of the coronavirus in our country, had stated that “the average mortality rate in seven days has exceeded 10 per day. “Unfortunately, we expect this number to increase dramatically in the coming days.”
Peacock: The health system is under pressure from the coronavirus
The president of EINAP, Matina Pagoni, spoke with Mega about the pressure that hospitals are receiving, highlighting that “if we continue to advance at this rate, we will not be able to cope with the hospitals.” Usually it was referring to the period from October 20-22 during which we had an immediate tripling of cases. While three are the critical parameters: the number of cases, intubated and hospitalized.
He referred to the pressure that hospitals receive not only for coronavirus patients but for all patients. As he characteristically said, “uncovered patients must be cared for, they must be operated on.” Then there was pressure because not all sections can be covid. “
At the same time, Ms Pagoni stressed the importance of adhering to the measures to reopen the market. “If we adapt to all the measures we will help them to open businesses and work on Christmas days, always with great care,” he said.
Closed for 21 days, open for 14 days, suggests Professor Sarigiannis
Demosthenes Sarigiannis, a professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, proposed a different plan to deal with the pandemic. In his statements to Open, Mr. Sarigiannis spoke of an alternate lockdown, that is, 21 days of quarantine and 14 days of open.
“Our proposal is an alternate” mini “blockade. We have made a scheme with 21 days of closure, 14 days open, which after three or four cycles takes us until the end of March, with about 500-600 boxes per day. I think that This is important for the decompression of the NSS If we follow this scheme, it will “cost” us about 200 ICU beds due to coronavirus and we have the capacity to manage it. “
“The outlook for dispersion is very large,” he added, predicting, at the same time, a reduction in cases from November 10. “We expect a peak on November 10 for cases, they can exceed 3,000,” Sarigiannis said. “Then we will have decompression,” he said.
Vasilakopoulos: “40-43% of those intubated with coronavirus in ICU die”
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Theodoros Vasilakopoulos, Professor of Intensive Care Pulmonology at the University of Athens Faculty of Medicine, told Mega that the coronavirus mortality problem would exist even if, as he said, we could magically multiply the number of hospitals or clinics by ten times.
He also stated that of those who were intubated with coronavirus in the ICU, 40-43% die. “It is necessary to develop as many intensive care beds as possible, which will continue to be a legacy for Greece. But it is not a solution to the pandemic to say that we have thousands of beds, whether simple or intensive care,” he said, explaining that if we got to the point of using all these beds we would have millions of deaths. “Therefore, we must stop the pandemic and reduce the number of patients,” Vasilakopoulos concluded.
Kikilias: Use of mask for coronavirus until spring
The Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias, speaking with SKAI, called on the elderly and vulnerable groups to pay special attention, noting at the same time that the safe way out of confinement is to observe the measures. But I say in advance, so that everyone understands, that wearing a mask indoors and outdoors throughout the day, will be something that will definitely follow us into the first months of spring and that it is one of “Without the fact that at some point in the afternoon and later, traffic will not be allowed, because unfortunately what we saw with minorities in the squares is unthinkable, “he said.
“If we follow the measures, it is obvious that the percentage of positivity will decrease rapidly. In Thessaloniki, in tests carried out by the mobile teams of the National Public Health Organization and the Ministry of Health, the positivity exceeded 20%. out of 10 are positive at the moment in Thessaloniki, possibly in northern Greece, the percentage is huge. I want everyone to understand the magnitude of the risk. “How much are we at risk and what do we have to do to be able to return to such a spread or such reduction of the virus and to be able to gradually and slowly reopen society and the economy, “he added.
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