Jonas Sakalauskas with severe coronavirus: on the disease and what skeptics should hear

The COVID-19 virus, which has been fighting the entire world for more than half a year, touched the world of Lithuanian culture a month ago, when Jonas Sakalauskas, a well-known opera soloist and director of the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Lithuania, got infected with it. Today, the man is happy to overcome the severe form of the disease, but urges everyone else not to be indifferent and to protect himself and those around him.

Today, in the “Thank you doctor” section of the TV8 television program “Tree of health”, the opera soloist agreed to tell his condition and give the most beautiful words of thanks to the doctors who saved his life, according to a Press release.

“Health is the most important asset in life. Recent research shows that I have managed to defeat this global virus. I have received state-of-the-art treatment using the blood plasma of a person who has already recovered from this virus. If it weren’t because of the medical care, I don’t know how it would have ended for me ”, J. Sakalauskas will tell in the program.

Thanks for the special care, care and treatment of a man’s mouth will be extended to the staff of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis of Clinicas Santara and its manager prof. Ligita Jančorienė. According to the doctor, it was not an easy challenge for the doctors to fight the COVID-19 virus, because at the beginning there was no well-adapted department and the people who worked in it.

“Now we have a lot of experience, there is a well-established work rhythm, algorithms, rules. But that’s not the end of the challenge. When the disease is milder, it can be treated at home, but when it comes to COVID-19, there is no registered drug in the world for this disease, everything that is done can be called a global experiment, “said VUL Clinic Santara. Head of the Center for Infectious Diseases prof. Dr. Ligita Jančorienė.

The history of COVID-19 infection is still very short, counting its first year, but it has taken enough time for it to become a global pandemic. The aggressiveness of the virus is due to its special properties and the fact that people have no immunity to it.

“None of us have initial immunity to this infection beforehand and that’s why it’s 100 percent. susceptibility. Now we can clearly see and predict which patients are at risk of severe disease: patients with comorbid diseases such as chronic lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, immunosuppressive diseases, post-transplant patients are also affected by overweight and severe obesity. This disease cannot be ignored, perhaps a person is in a milder form because he is young, he does not have concomitant diseases, but it can serve as a source for an older person, for whom he can determine life expectancy ”, says prof. L. Jančorienė.

Despite regularly published information about the spread and control of COVID-19 infection, skeptics who do not believe in the existence of the disease continue to spread confusing myths. The head of LNOBT J. Sakalauskas urges not to be indifferent and assures that he is convinced with his own fur that this disease is more real than it seems.

“I would like to tell all skeptics of the disease that I am a living witness that it is a serious disease that cannot be ignored. This is not a simple flu. Please let us protect each other and do not panic. Until Today, it is much clearer how to protect our environment, so let us be healthy from our point of view, with our body, be attentive to ourselves and to others ”, says J. Sakalauskas.