Béla Merkely: In the second wave, twenty percent of the population may have been infected



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Healthcare has never faced challenges like it did at the time of the coronavirus epidemic, and workers have shown their true strength and unity: The Rector of Semmelweis University praised Kossuth Radio Good morning, Hungary! on Thursday, writes the telegraph office.

Merkely Béla He also spoke about it: During the epidemic period, hospitals helped each other and universities jointly carried out comprehensive and representative screening tests to accurately determine the infectivity of the virus and where we are in the epidemic.

He stressed that in the spring, in the first wave of the epidemic, experts were barely becoming familiar with the virus and, with swift and decisive action, they kept the virus infection roughly outside the border.

He said that up to 20 percent of the population could become infected in the second wave of the epidemic, according to estimates.

However, it is gratifying that two-thirds of the peacekeeping capacity of intensive care units have been able to stop the number of patients, he added. According to Béla Merkely, thanks to the protective measures, it seems that the numbers decrease quite slowly after the plateau phase.

He also covered his Holy Communion, which he said: we cannot leave the elderly alone, but we must follow the rules that ensure they do not get infected. For this reason, he also recommended the use of masks within the family, washing hands every hour and maintaining a distance of one and a half meters.

He hopes that after Christmas, vaccination will begin in healthcare, first to protect those who work directly on the front lines and then to vaccinate older chronic patients who are most exposed to infection.

Béla Merkely said that vaccination is much safer than any other drug. It is based on a technology that ensures at many points that it cannot cause any significant harm to the body. The minor side effects are in no way comparable to what a coronavirus can cause.

He said about a new variant of the coronavirus identified in Britain: in London, most illnesses seem to be caused by this virus, but those cases are not more serious, there are no more patients on a ventilator and there is no higher mortality from it. Their infectivity may be stronger, but it only draws attention to the fact that they all adhere even more to the standards proposed so far, said Béla Merkely.



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