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The enormous pressure that the second wave of the pandemic exerted on the health system, the data that worries the experts but also the possibility of a continuous lockdown spoke on SKAI TV. Professor of Infectious Diseases Nikos Sypsas.
He explained that the cases may have fallen below 3,000 but there is data of very poor quality, such as the doubling of the rate of positive cases to 10% (10% of those controlled become ill) while the safety limit according to the WHO is 4%. According to the professor, in some areas this index even reaches 19%. In addition, the R index is constantly above 1, between 1.2 and 1.4.
He also referred to the reduction in the mean age of intubated patients from 75 to 65 years, explaining that the same thing happened in Italy.
“We see tragic images in hospitals, people in their 50s come and they can’t breathe,” he said. “It’s not funny at all, the virus shows its teeth and has a very ugly face,” he said.
Imprisonment, he stressed, is the only powerful weapon we have, we tried everything and they failed, adding that he personally does not believe that the data on November 30 is so good to stop the confinement. March, he added, showed that incarceration is intensifying the epidemic and that this weapon will be used as needed to control the pandemic.
Even if we open, Sypsas noted, there will be closing again after a week or two, adding that we must be prepared for a tough winter and to roll into spring.
According to the professor, when the enormous pressure on the health system ceases and there is availability in single beds but also in the ICU, only then will we be able to think about reducing measures.
Source: skai.gr
