Vasilakopoulos to SKAI: Outbreak of pandemic – We will pay higher death tax

For exacerbation of cases of coronavirus as a result of the relaxation of the measures and the three days of Clean Monday, the professor of Pulmonology and Intensive Care of the Medical School of the University of Athens speaks, Theodoros Vasilakopoulos speaking on SKAI and the show “Today”.

“There is a clear outburst, we are in a gear ratio, the famous R, above the unit, which means that the epidemic is growing a little bit,” he said.

As he explained, this outbreak is due to three factors. First, in the gradual dominance of Omicron 2, which was discovered in parallel with Omicron and is 30% -50% more contagious.

“The second is that we see the consequences on the one hand of the general relaxation that took place and on the other hand of the festive three days. The compulsory use of the mask outdoors came and at the same time we all celebrated together without having reached the rate of vaccination coverage of other countries that also withdraw measures “, he added.

He pointed out that cases are rising all over Europe, even in Britain where the percentage of those vaccinated with a third dose is 67%, while in Greece the corresponding percentage is around 50%.

“This means that we will have a slightly bigger wave and we will pay a higher death tax”, Mr. Vasilakopoulos underlined.

Regarding the current reports that speak of 16,000 dead, throughout the pandemic, due to the lack of ICU beds, the Ministry of Health replied to SKAI that the waiting time in ICU is 30 hours, the time of hospitalization outside ICU is At 4.7 days, the 16,000 dead had a mean age of 81 years and 127 people with Covid died outside the hospital because they did not go.

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