There is currently a plateau of around 900 Covid patients. A good 5,000 seriously ill people were about a year ago, said Marx, who is also the director of the clinic for intensive care and intermediate care at the University Hospital in Aachen. “But these are usually older, i.e. 70 to 80 year old patients.” The capacities of the ventilators are also far from exhausted. “This shows once again that we care for significantly fewer seriously ill patients with corona infections,” reported Marx.
Other tones are still heard in Vienna. “Our great concern is the wave that we expect in December, January, February,” said City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) to oe24. You first have to see which mutation prevails. “It is therefore my duty to say that it is not behind us,” said the city councilor, who therefore adheres to the mask requirement in Vienna, which virologists believe is pointless and primarily politically motivated in its current form.
According to Dr. Marcus Franz, Viennese specialist in internal medicine, the mask requirement of Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig is a “fog grenade” to distract from other problems, such as the Vienna Energy scandal or the structural deficiencies in hospitals. “With the Covid problem you can cover it all up.”
