About 2.5 million people have been infected since September in Greece, but the millions who have been vaccinated and those who have become ill have donated to the community. an immunoprotection against severe diseasewith the result that these many cases do not translate into hospitalizations, intubation and many deaths.
This was emphasized to SKAI by the professor of Pulmonology of the Medical School of the University of Crete Nikos Tzanakis, noting that “we hope that the Omicron 2 sub-variant will not be able to give a serious boost that will put us in serious trouble.” “Since September we have had 12,000 dead and many intubated,” he said.
“A further increase in transmissibility is expected in the coming days, we will go to over 25,000 cases per day on average,” said the pulmonologist, but clarified that we will see in the ICU stabilization and very mild de-escalation, below 350 intubated, with 300 to 320 intubated at the end of the month. “It is a manageable phase,” he said.
“For three weeks we had said that we are in a whirlpool of O2 which is ‘cousin’ of Omicron, but 50% more contagious and we expected, as it happened, throughout Europe that the cases will increase” stressed Nikos Tzanakis.
Who needs a fourth dose?
“The fourth dose protects a little more than infection and serious illness, but not so much. “A person who does not have underlying diseases or is not elderly does not need a fourth dose with the data so far,” the professor underlined.
He added, however, that those in nursing homes may need to upgrade protocols, with a fourth installment probably from the third to the fourth month after the third installment.
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