As of: 12/26/2022 4:07 a.m
Intensive care physician Karagiannidis expects the corona pandemic to end after this winter. In addition, the wave of respiratory diseases in Germany has reached its peak. Nevertheless, he warned of bottlenecks in clinics.
With a view to the corona pandemic, intensive care physician Christian Karagiannidis has expressed optimism. “I firmly expect that the pandemic will now increasingly expire,” said the member of the federal government’s Corona Expert Council to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”. Karagiannidis answered yes to the question of whether the pandemic would be over after the winter. Certainly there will still be one or the other small wave. “But we notice that the immunity situation of the population is solid and we have significantly fewer Covid patients in the intensive care units.”
Karagiannidis considers it unlikely that a dangerous corona variant will spread again in Germany. The defense against corona viruses apparently works very well, he said with regard to the immunity through antibodies and T cells. “We see that the number of serious illnesses is decreasing more and more. I don’t think we will experience a setback again.”
Infection wave has reached its peak
In addition, Karagiannidis sees the wave of respiratory diseases in Germany at their peak. “We currently know that the very strong wave of infections has just peaked and that the number of infections will hopefully decrease in the coming days,” said the President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine. There are already signs of a slight decrease in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections and other infectious diseases.
Nevertheless, Karagiannidis warned that there could be bottlenecks in clinics on New Year’s Eve and New Year – albeit regionally and not nationwide. In view of the tense situation in the hospitals, he called on people to hold back from firecrackers on New Year’s Eve or to do without them altogether.