After two and a half years of the corona pandemic, the hospital occupancy figures have now been clarified. Until now, for example, Vienna had also admitted the no longer contagious post-covid or long-covid patients into the wards. In the future, only numbers of infectious people who are in the regular ward will be reported in the so-called capacity research tool (KET).
The Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reports daily – except on weekends – the number of patients in hospital with or due to Corona. In order to continue to guarantee the best possible uniformity of the counting method in the capacity research of the federal states and to map the dynamic pandemic development as accurately as possible, also from a technical point of view, from now on only infectious beds will be reported in normal care units that are occupied. cases registered with Covid 19 cases,” the Department of Health said at the request of APA. For the intensive care units, on the other hand, the definition remains unchanged, ie infectious and no longer infectious cases are counted and reported as Covid-19 cases.
For Vienna, where the traffic light commission is often switched to red, this means that about 50 percent of hospital patients will no longer be registered in the future. Because according to the daily broadcast, which the city sends out every day, about 471 people were hospitalized in Vienna for or with Covid-19 on Friday. 105 positives were in a normal ward because of the main diagnosis corona, 108 positives because of other diseases. 231 people occupy the beds because of Post Covid. The distribution was similar in intensive care: on Friday, twelve infected people received intensive care in Covid wards, 15 people were intensive care patients in post-Covid wards. This means that although these patients are no longer contagious, they become seriously ill after an infection.
Decrease in the occupancy rate of hospitals
According to AGES figures from Friday, 1,328 infected people are currently in hospital, 25 fewer than Thursday. Within a week there was a drop of 680 people. 91 people are being cared for in the intensive care unit. That number has fallen by two since Thursday and by eight patients in a week.
Long Covid or Post Covid is the secondary disease after a Covid 19 infection. If symptoms persist for more than twelve weeks after an acute illness or if new ones develop, this is called Long Covid. The symptoms are diverse and vary in severity, the World Health Organization lists some 200 long-term Covid symptoms. At least 17 million people in Europe were affected by long-term Covid symptoms in the first two years of the pandemic, according to an analysis by the WHO.
The data status of the epidemiological reporting system (EMS) related to the corona pandemic in Austria is updated daily in the afternoon on the dashboard of AGES (Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety). The data reflects what happens between midnight and midnight of the respective event day before wider.
Source: Krone
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