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Municipality of Plungė district, where more than 44 thousand people live. The population for some time was among those in which the pandemic situation was worst. During the last day, 10 new cases of contagion were detected in the district and the number of infections has been decreasing for several days in a row.
However, experts on the situation testify that a week ago it was so bad that “falling below was nowhere to be found.”
Mortality can also be determined by age
Giedrė Ligeikienė, head of the Telšiai department of the National Center for Public Health, stated that when she looks at the figures, she also sees positive things.
Here in Plungė and Rietavas, the municipalities where the highest number of infections has been registered in the country for some time, there is a decrease in new cases.
In Plungė about 100 thousand days ago. There were more than a thousand cases in 14 days, now 894. There were no cases of infection in Rietavas on the last day, but 83 people are still sick.
“The growth was the same as a week ago, so we expect the numbers to stabilize.” 15 minutes G.Ligeikienė said.
According to her, said morbidity and mortality were caused mainly by the inactive vaccination process, especially in the elderly group. In the age group 80 years and over, only less than half of the population has been vaccinated so far.
It is possible that there are more elderly people in Plungė, perhaps such a social structure. By the way, this group is poorly vaccinated.
G.Ligeikienė said that while observing the situation in Plungė, he noticed that several patients had been born in 1920-1930. So, people of honorable age.
“It just came to our attention then. There may be more older people in Plungė, maybe such a social structure. By the way, this group is poorly vaccinated.
Here in Mažeikiai, we see that the infection is spreading more among the very young. However, naturally, they get sick more easily and are hospitalized less often. And people of respectable age often have comorbidities. So this virus is really dangerous for them ”, said the interlocutor.
Aurelija Jašinskienė / 15min.lt photo / A woman disinfects her hands at the festival in the town of Plungė.
Explaining how people become infected reveals that in half of the cases, the routes of infection are unknown. Differentials are often recorded across families.
“Sometimes it is really difficult for people to know where they got sick, but we are faced with cases where they do not say intentionally or do not communicate with anger,” explained the head of NVSC’s Telšiai department.
More active in finding antibodies than vaccines
Mantas Česnauskas, deputy director of the Plungė district municipal administration and coordinator of the emergency operations center, said the situation in the district is quite tense, although it is improving slightly.
We have 39 places in the hospital, 37 are occupied. The numbers speak volumes. And that touches the entire chain, because there were days when ambulance doctors also made calls 40 times. By the way, most of the calls were related to the coronavirus, ”said M. Česnauskas.
According to him, most cases run in families.
“It’s not like it was the fall when the nursing home expanded and the fireplaces were hard to stop. Now, as much as we get information from ambulance doctors, families are sick. And most of the time, the elderly, who received recommendations from relatives and children not to get vaccinated, ”said the interviewee.
Photo by Aurelia Jašinskienė / 15min.lt / Plungė
Recently, the local community was shocked by the death of a senior educator. The woman was not vaccinated.
The vaccination process in the area is still slow. He becomes more active when he receives the Janssen vaccine, which requires only one dose.
Sick families now. And, most often, the elderly, who have received recommendations from relatives and children not to vaccinate.
“We see that we are actively investigating antibodies,” said M. Česnauskis.
Liar and 40 years
Remigijus Mažeika, the temporary director of the Plungė Hospital, recalled that until recently, up to 8 patients were taken to a small regional hospital per day. For comparison, last year, 16 patients were taken to the hospital in the big city, Šiauliai, per day during the heat of the pandemic.
The flow is now a little lower, but COVID-19 is still entering every day. Two middle-aged men were taken to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon alone. The most complicated patients are transferred to the Šiauliai Republican Hospital.
“However, I think the problem is the low vaccination rate. Most of the patients in the hospital are not vaccinated and are more seriously ill than vaccinated. In addition, the elderly have comorbidities such as diabetes, cancer, obesity. This significantly complicates the situation, ”said the head of the hospital.
Although most patients are of a respectable age, there are some in their early 40s.
Photo by Aurelija Jašinskienė / 15min.lt / Hospital Plungė
When asked why they were not vaccinated, most give the same answer, thinking that the virus will not reach them, asking children and relatives for advice not to get vaccinated.
“That epidemiological situation, when there were more than 1,000 cases per 100,000. population, equated to bad times when there was no vaccine. Only in September. However, there is also good news: there are no patients among the doctors, because many of them fell ill last fall. Also, he made the job more difficult, ”said R. Mažeika, who recently headed the Šiauliai Republican Hospital.
He compared Plungė with Joniškis, where there were also several patients, but relatively few were hospitalized. This may be due to better vaccination rates in the Joniškis municipality.
“We have to hope that we are the first to fall into the well, the first to get out,” expected R. Mažeika, the director of the hospital.
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