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The number of intubated patients has increased, the ICUs of the reporting hospitals are under pressure, and Mr. Sypsas is sounding the alarm of the pandemic. Mr. Nikolaos Sypsas, infectious disease specialist, professor at the University of Athens, member of the committee for coronavirus, spoke on the “Society Hour MEGA” program.
“We probably shouldn’t be optimistic. The epidemic has a strong upward trend, we have very poor epidemiological characteristics in terms of income and people in the ICU, the age of intubated people who have decreased. Currently 70% of revenues represent “The elderly and patients with underlying diseases. We have a bad scenario,” said Mr. Sypsas.
Mr Sypsas even referred to data from the technical report of the European organization ECDC, which includes “poor forecasts for the next ten days in Greece based on the measures we had taken from 8 to 10 September”.
He warned that “the only measure that has a spectacular effect on the epidemic is the curfew, the closure.” In Mr Sypsas’s view, measures must be taken in time in Attica “to attack the epidemic before it escapes.”
“Attica is in orange and if the measures don’t work and Attica reaches ‘red’ then we will have to take much more drastic measures,” he said.
You may need a two-week curfew or even a restaurant and store closing; it all depends on the epidemic.
Source: skai.gr
