Eloquent statistics: all COVID-19 patients treated at Santara clinics were not vaccinated

V. Pečeliūnas 15 minutes He said that at least this hospital currently cares only for those patients who have not been vaccinated.

And the patients are getting younger and younger, now they are only in their 30s and 40s.

Summer wave

– The number of COVID-19 infections is increasing again, but the number of patients requiring hospitalization is not increasing, at least for the moment. Here, I hope, is there no silence for the storm?

– Fortunately, we were not the first in the world to start this wave: summer.

Everyone expected it to be autumn, but it is clear that in some countries it is summer and it is already called a little differently: a wave of unvaccinated people.

Today, there are definitely no waves in Lithuanian hospitals. And judging by the number of recently identified cases, we are actually seeing a growth trend.

– In previous waves, doctors have emphasized that there must be about two weeks between the number of infections that begin to increase and the increase in the flow of patients needing hospitalization. Don’t you see that trend now?

– Usually about ten days elapsed between the increase in the number of cases and the increase in the number of hospitalized patients.

In Lithuania, we got up formally from July 4th to 6th, we have it for the last two weeks.

There is no increase in hospitalized patients, at least in our facility, as we see in other facilities.

All unvaccinated

– How many COVID-19 patients are currently admitted to the Santara clinics?

– Currently there is only one patient in resuscitation in the Santara clinics. We have seven patients in non-resuscitation rooms.

The patients now in the COVID-19 wards at the Santara clinics are not vaccinated.

– You say it’s a wave of unvaccinated people. Are the majority of hospitalized patients precisely unvaccinated people?

– Patients now in the COVID-19 wards at the Santara clinics are not vaccinated.

I don’t have data on other hospitals, but our hospital is like that.

– What explanations do you hear from these patients about why they have not been vaccinated until now?

– They are ordinary things: some people have not listened and do not want to hear anything, others avoid due to certain medical myths – that there can be complications and so on.

We don’t hear any special news from patients, it’s the same things: disbelief in vaccines, distrust in medicine, denial of vaccination.

– Are the patients arriving now different from those you had in the winter, in the spring?

– We currently have younger patients hospitalized in the hospital.

The condition of most patients, at least those who have not been resuscitated, is not critical. Age: 30-40 years.

Better late than never

– People now often argue that the lack of vaccination is also due to the fact that they will be vaccinated in the fall, at the end of the holidays, when the normal virus season approaches. It’s not too late?

Vaccination is very effective, protects both against symptomatic disease and against severe forms of the disease, hospitalization.

– It can be said that vaccination is never too late or better late than never.

These sayings apply, but the fact that one should not learn from mistakes, from close experiences.

The data has already shown quite reliably that vaccination is very effective in the case of COVID-19, it protects against both symptomatic disease and, most importantly, severe forms of the disease, hospitalization.

I encourage you to trust specialists, doctors, consult your family doctor.

Vaccination is certainly an effective and safe way to protect against the threat of COVID-19 at this time.

This is also demonstrated by world practice. When comparing the spring or winter waves with the current wave, we see that the proportion of hospitalized patients has decreased significantly compared to the number of cases detected, at times.

It was only with the start of this new wave in the UK that we couldn’t say for sure because there was a lack of monitoring.

We are currently seeing a slight increase in the number of hospitalizations in the UK and Israel.

But if we compare the proportion of how many new cases are confirmed, then in the UK the number of new cases is approaching the same peak as at the beginning of this year.

And there are quite a few hospitalized patients.

In the UK, that wave can be said to have started in the spring, which has been a follow-up period for a month and a half, so the data can be trusted quite reliably.

Not everyone may need a third dose.

– What will be the decision on the third dose of the vaccine? Will they be necessary for everyone, or only for certain, perhaps the most sensitive groups of people?

– The data is currently being discussed among the researchers and the data is being analyzed.

Some countries, such as Great Britain and Israel, have already decided to vaccinate the most vulnerable people with a third dose, those with a poor response to vaccination.

As we can see, there is only one other vaccinated person who has been diagnosed with COVID-19, but those severe forms that require hospitalization generally occur almost exclusively in vaccinated patients when they have another disease or treatment that affects their immunity.

Consequently, they are those people whose immune system is damaged, weakened.

These people are at risk of serious illness even after standard vaccination.

I sincerely hope that a decision will be made soon in Lithuania to vaccinate people with impaired immunity with the third dose.

These people were at the forefront of vaccination priorities, we see their response.

These data in Lithuania are quite well analyzed, we can see that a significant part of these patients did not respond adequately to the vaccine.

There is already data, but, it is true, not much, that additional vaccination significantly increases the immune response, the protection against COVID-19 in these people.

This is nothing new. And with hepatitis B, revaccination is given to people who do not respond adequately to the standard vaccination cycle.

Globally, the long-standing practice is booster vaccination, for the third dose, this is no exception.

I have no doubt that those decisions will be made without a long wait.