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A few hours before Kyriakos Mitsotakis and infectious disease specialist Sotiris Tsiodras announce the closure in Attica, the vice president of EODY explained what led the experts to make the specific proposal to the prime minister.
“We need universality in all measures. The committee of specialists in infectious diseases held an extraordinary meeting yesterday and, given the spread of the epidemic and epidemiological data, a generalized closure in the country was suggested to the government,” George Panagiotakopoulos said in statements to Mega.
As the committee explained, it proposed a blockade due to the many positive tests, the increase in the transmission rate and the pressure on the health system due to the increase in the number of intubated patients.
“If intubations continue to grow like this, from 10 to 15 a day, at some point the system will collapse. We have not reached the point of choosing who to admit to the ICU. But we don’t want to get there. The purpose of the confinement is not to get to this point. “There is capacity in the UCI in some places,” he emphasized.
According to the vice president of EODY, the high number of cases is due, in part, to the numerous, around 25,000, tests that are carried out daily.
However, he highlighted that “the number of intubated people is independent and indisputable. If we had more positive cases and fewer intubations, the decisions would be different. The intubation index is too strong to show the resilience of the healthcare system. And it predicts what will happen next. “
Regarding the situation in Thessaloniki, Mr. Panagiotakopoulos said that it is epidemiologically difficultWhile, as the area with the highest epidemiological burden, it preferred the center of Athens.
Commenting on the reliability of the rapid tests, he explained that “coming out one day positive and the next negative means the virus can still hatch.” The opposite needs a bit of discussion. “
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