The need to take additional measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus was pointed out by the director of the 2nd ICU of the “Papanikolaou” hospital, Nikos Kapravelos, speaking to SKAI and the show “Today”.
“My suggestion so that the market does not close and we have a dark Christmas is to make some interventions that were made in Europe as well. To close schools for a week, something like a winter break, and to tighten the protocol for when a department will close when it has coronavirus cases, not to be 50%. The Germans say if you do not have a rapid test you do not get on public transport and I say it should be applied in Greece now. “To be locked in while we have a vaccine available would be ridiculous,” he said.
At the same time, he reiterated the extension of the obligation of vaccinations, mainly to the citizens over 60 years of age, who are also those who flood the ICUs.
As he said, with 96 dead a day and the new Omicron mutation coming, it is necessary to take these measures. He estimated that Omicron is transmissible and the concern of the scientific world is whether it is covered by vaccines.
Regarding the situation in the hospitals, Mr. Kapravelos underlined that yesterday’s on-call time at the “Papanikolaou” hospital was very difficult, although fewer admissions were recorded, around 50 in relation, compared to the previous on-call period. 70. “But the attendance is over 110 in a continuous flow which means that the dispersion in the community is huge. We do not see this wave being stopped. “We went back many years when we intubated patients outside the ICU,” he concluded.
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