Coronavirus: fear of the crisis of the crown far beyond the fall



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Not just close contact

– How did they map and introduce domestic quarantine to Sel so quickly?

– Many have put enormous effort into detecting infections. Based on our knowledge of other serious infectious situations, we carefully checked people in the so-called risk groups and with whom they had all been in contact for 48 hours before they felt any discomfort. And we do not trust the assumptions of the Institute of Public Health that close contact was a route of infection. For example, our experience now shows that one of the sick people became infected in a meeting room with no close contact, says the municipal manager of health and care.

And he adds: – I started the work in 2017, and I noticed from the beginning that the whole apparatus in Sel Municipality is well trained and very oriented. There is a lot of experience in flood management and other emergency situations.

– Much faster than sars

Even Iren Ramsøy is an intensive care nurse with several years of experience in the fields of Haukeland University Hospital, even during the SARS epidemic.

– This is the worst health situation in the world in recent times. This corona virus spreads much faster than sars.

Together with the municipality’s infection control physician Therese Renaa, she began ordering more infection control kits from the municipality’s permanent provider in January.

It was based on news reports on the situation in northern Italy.

– Even then there was a shortage and waiting lists on suppliers after orders from many places in the world. We checked the market and got equipment from time to time, says the municipal health official.

Double risk

She points out a couple of negative factors for her municipality and district when a new crown peak is likely to arrive:

– The interior has an older population than the average in other parts of the country. This means a larger risk group for the disease.

– And Inland County has calculated an infection factor of 1.4 per person. Infected person There is twice the risk of infection as calculations by national authorities. Failed calculations, in my opinion, says the Municipal Manager Iren Ramsøy.

And here are his biggest fears ahead:

– If the worst estimate of 40% of health workers at the Institute of Public Health is sick or quarantined, there will be a crisis with many unskilled temporary workers. It becomes very difficult with the necessary training in such a situation. A bright spot is that NAV has mapped a health education section among layoffs from other industries.

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