In the 40th calendar week, 773 people were treated in hospital for pneumonia as a result of the corona disease, 24 of whom were in intensive care. Doctors recommend vaccination.
Pulmonologist Arshang Valipour emphasized again: “It is probably worthwhile to get vaccinated even now in the middle of the wave, because vaccination protection is highest in the first few weeks after the injection has been administered.”
“There are currently more people in hospital again due to the Covid 19 disease. We assume that the share of diseases requiring hospitalization will continue to increase in the coming weeks,” the doctor said in a press release from the Karl Landsteiner Institute (KLI ) for lung research in Vienna.
Urgent call: ‘Vaccination protects against hospital admission’
“A vaccination against KP.2, the latest variant, has recently become available,” Valipour said. A booster vaccination against Covid-19 could protect against severe illness and hospital admissions.
The Karl Landsteiner Institute recommends that risk groups wear masks and get tested quickly if they have symptoms. In addition to people aged 60 and over, pregnant women, people with underlying diseases (lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases) and immunocompromised people are also at greater risk of a serious course and they receive free rapid tests.
If the result is positive, antiviral medications against Covid-19 can be prescribed, which should be taken shortly after the onset of symptoms.
Source: Krone
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