Around 25 new admissions of patients with coronavirus were made during on-call duty at Papageorgiou Hospital, which ended this morning, while another 11 people are being treated as suspected cases in the short-stay ward.
At the same time, according to what Christos Papastergiou, radiologist, Attending Physician A' at the General Hospital "Papageorgiou", told GRTimes.gr, seven children under the age of one year are hospitalized with coronavirus, with the youngest being a few days old and the oldest 7-8 months old, without their condition being of concern so far.
As Papastergiou points out, the pressure on hospitals continues to be high although it shows a trend towards stabilisation, with admissions hovering around the same levels as the previous on-call on 5 January which was worse than New Year's Day, but ICUs are still full and 10-11 people are still intubated outside.
As he points out, the Omicron mutation, although more contagious, appears much milder, with the cases in the hospital's ICU involving the Delta mutation.
We are finishing the pandemic in 2022
In the next few days, Papastergiou stresses, cases from the Christmas holidays and the opening of schools will appear. "If we manage to get through January without major losses because of Christmas and schools, we will enter a path of de-escalation. My own estimate is that in 2022, towards the summer, just before or just after, we'll be done. That is my opinion. I'm not an epidemiologist, but empirically as I observe and based on the history of previous pandemics I say that." According to him, it is not excluded that by the summer there will be another mutation, which he estimated will be much milder and will be the last one.
Regarding the protection of citizens from vaccines, he referred to the statistics concerning medical personnel, which is the group of the population that is much more in contact with cases and therefore more at risk than anyone else. "Of the doctors who have given the third dose of the vaccine, seriously ill or worse, dying, there are none. I think this is the biggest argument for the value of vaccines," he concluded.
Source: protothema.gr
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