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Christmas passed and we lived it in a completely different way, I mean the coronavirus.
In relation to others, it was dark since on Christmas Day, Greece mourned 50 more deaths from coronavirus, while according to EODY data, 470 people are fighting in the ICU.
This number of intubations is a concern for experts, as it is decreasing at an extremely slow rate. The 470 intubated patients are a much larger number than the 300 estimated by infectious disease specialists, following the implementation of the shutdown in early November.
And this, among other things, has as a consequence the exhaustion of SNA’s front-line employees “because they work long beyond their capacities.”
Although the number of new cases appears to stabilize below 1,000 each day, experts are concerned about the slow decompression of ICUs, while calls for reverent observance of coronavirus protection measures continue, warning that two are ahead. difficult months. Respiratory infections: January and February.
They also characterize the period until January 7 as critical, ringing a bell for a possible outbreak of cases due to gatherings in homes.
According to infectious disease specialists, holidays will have a negative effect on epidemiological data and the results will be seen after 15-20 days.
The big bet of the Government and the experts is not to put pressure on the NSS again, while hopes are raised that the vaccination will begin imminent next Sunday.
The good news is the ECDC positivity index for our country, which is in the “green”, that is, below 4%.
We have a way ahead: pressure on the NSS remains
“Obviously there is an improvement and this is a happy message, but there is a lot of pressure on the National Health System, especially in certain areas of Greece with high epidemiological rates,” said Theodoros Vasilakopoulos, Professor of Pneumology-Intensive Care at EKPA. .
“The big bet from now on is how we will manage not to put pressure on the NSS again, which, despite the efforts that have been made, has finite possibilities. “The coronavirus is a very difficult opponent,” he said, adding that “we must realize that we still have a way to go. “The first positive elements that we have after a while, we should take them as a reward and not as an occasion to relax,” he said characteristically.
January and February are difficult months
According to Mr Vasilakopoulos, as soon as there is a relaxation of protection measures and an increase in mobility, we will be led with mathematical precision to an increase in cases, since there is still no mass vaccination.
He stressed that the coming months (January – February) are the most difficult months for respiratory infections.
The critical period until January 7
The president of the Panhellenic Medical Association, Athanasios Exadaktylos, said that the holidays will logically have a negative effect on the epidemiological data and that the results will be seen after 15-20 days.
At the same time, Exadaktylos emphasized, speaking to Sky, that the number of intubated workers is slowly but tortuously decreasing and that employees on the front lines of the NSS have started to be exhausted “because they work too long beyond their capabilities.”
At the same time, the professor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Demosthenes Sarigiannis estimated that in large urban centers such as Attica the incidence of the coronavirus is expected to increase in the coming days.
He predicted that around January 7, the cases will approach 800.
“It’s a good number, but this decline will be slower across the country,” he said. 
Concern for West Attica
The burden in the Attica area, which has recently become a “champion” of daily cases, is declining at an extremely slow rate.
Characteristically, one third of current cases have been recorded in Attica, while the burden reduction continues in Thessaloniki.
It is worrying that in the western sector of Athens, where yesterday the cases were 39, the percentage per 100,000 inhabitants is still high (24.23).
However, it is not West Attica that is concerned. In recent days, several cases have appeared in the center of Athens, a fact that is being carefully examined by those responsible. 
the good news
But things are not just grim. The arrival in our country of the first batch of vaccines and the start of vaccinations tomorrow raises hope, while the good news is the latest report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the course of the pandemic in our country, after closing of 55 days.
New ECDC data for the EU and the UK show that Greece is gradually entering a safer orbit and that the latest package of measures is starting to bear fruit. 
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