Slavic: 40 to 45 percent of patients who are connected to a ventilator die

János Szlávik explained in the ATV Weekly Diary with András Sváby: around 30 percent of these patients died in the spring wave, this figure

it increased during the second wave, now in his intensive care unit, but during the second wave, between 40 and 45 percent of patients already treated here are dying.

In the past, it has been found that most patients were infected in family or mass events, today, however, social spread is typical, it is no longer always possible to know where someone contracted the virus.

It also happens that a patient is taken to the hospital who has been cared for and has strictly followed disease control rules, which, according to the chief doctor, shows that anyone can get the coronavirus today, he explained.

Patients get older and worse, so they cannot rule out that more and more people die. In inpatient wards, 5-10 percent of patients in the hospital die from the virus, according to János Slavik, but you have to see that as the months go by, patients age. The average age is now approaching 50-60 years, he added.

János Slavik reacted to the news that ophthalmologists or even psychiatrists are already treating coronavirus patients in some hospitals: in the spring there were examples of different doctors being redirected from other departments who were taught how to care for infectious patients. He said that whoever graduated from medical school should be able to see practically any patient, reports the ATV portal.

The chief physician said the elderly and chronically ill were still at higher risk, but in recent weeks it became clear that people with Down syndrome are also at risk: experience shows they are ten times more likely to die from the coronavirus, so they should also receive greater protection.

Top image: A ventilation tube next to a coronavirus-infected patient in the intensive care unit of St. Imre University Hospital, COVID, on April 24, 2020. Source: MTI / Tamás Kovács