Epidemiologist Erik Feigel-Ding’s (40) warnings, shared by Lauterbach, sound dramatic indeed. But are they serious? It says the number of coronavirus hospitalizations has doubled in New York – but the absolute numbers don’t really seem like the apocalypse yet. Of the 8.5 million residents of the US metropolis, 80 are currently in the intensive care unit suffering from the corona. The meaning of the word “with” here is well known.
Further interpretation of the data, which aims to prove the “strong spread” of the new Covid variant “eg.5”, is also not new. They are “very worrying”, tell Americans and call for mask-wearing. The German health minister is only too happy to attend to such alarming reports. He will keep “monitoring” of the situation. “The next few weeks will be critical,” many Austrians probably automatically think at this point.
