Corona: What doctors say about unvaccinated people in the intensive care unit

There are a good dozen patients who are currently being treated for a corona infection at the St. Josef University Hospital in Bochum. One of them is Liane Meermann-Hölscher. The day before she was treated in the intensive care unit. She was not vaccinated when she contracted Covid-19. “I was afraid, I was just afraid of the vaccination. Because of the hype in the media, one person says so, the other says so. And myself, I already had cerebral bleeding and was afraid that I would get another brain thrombosis. And that’s why I have pulled out until it is no longer possible. ” Many doctors say that it is mainly unvaccinated patients who have to be treated in the intensive care unit for a Covid-19 infection. Renate Schlottmann, Infectiologist at the Bochum University Clinic, confirms this. “So primarily we see unvaccinated patients in the patients who need inpatient treatment. In the intensive care unit in particular, we see unvaccinated patients in over 90 percent of the cases. So those Patients who have a serious course of the disease are usually not vaccinated. And the vaccination protects against a serious course of the disease in over 90 percent of cases. (CUT) Yes, what does ‘it annoys you’? Don’t understand the point of view that … In such a short time we got a vaccination that works very, very well – and that it is still simply not noticed by individuals Winter, to be vaccinated for people who have not yet been vaccinated, i.e. from 12 years of age. ” Clinic director Professor Christoph Hanefeld expects an increase in occupancy. “It seemed to be taking a back seat, but when you followed the whole situation, including abroad, it was clear that it was a phase in which you heard little. But now comes exactly what we did actually feared the fourth wave is coming and we can feel it here in the clinic “. The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine recently pointed out that the number of Covid patients has been increasing continuously for two weeks. From the point of view of intensive care physicians, the pandemic is not over yet and such debates are premature.