As of: 08/29/2021 2:16 p.m.
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With the number of infections, which has been increasing for weeks, the number of corona intensive care patients is also increasing again. For the first time since mid-June it is more than 1000. Compared to the previous year, it is noticeable that the patients are significantly younger.
The number of corona patients treated in intensive care units in Germany has risen to over 1000 for the first time. in the DIVI Register daily report from Sunday 1008 Covid-19 patients were reported in intensive care units, 485 of whom had to be ventilated. Most recently, a value of over 1000 was recorded in the daily report from June 18.
The low before the fourth wave flared up was 354 in the July 22 report, and occupancy has been increasing again since then. On August 29 of last year, the number was just 241; it was not until the end of October that it had risen to over 1000 in the course of the second wave.
The maximum value for the number of Covid-19 patients recorded in intensive care units was a good 5,700 at the beginning of January in the course of the second corona wave in Germany. According to the German Hospital Society (DKG), around 5,000 cases nationwide are considered the load limit for the clinics, whereby operations that can already be planned would then be postponed.
Patients significantly younger than in the previous year
In contrast to the previous year, senior citizens are no longer primarily affected: Almost every tenth Covid 19 patient currently being treated in the intensive care unit is 30 to 39 years old, according to the data in the DIVI registry, and almost one in five 40 to 49 years (status 26.08., Updated every Thursday). The 50 to 59 year olds make up a quarter of the patients, the 60 to 69 year olds a good fifth. Unvaccinated people are mostly affected by severe courses and deaths.
The proportion of Covid 19 patients in the total number of intensive care beds is currently particularly high in North Rhine-Westphalia (6.4 percent) and in Saarland (5.3 percent).
About ten days between infection and admission
Even if the seven-day incidence of new infections did not increase or even decrease in the coming days, the number of Covid 19 patients treated in intensive care units would initially continue to increase. The incidence is always reflected with a delay in the clinic occupancy, because usually about ten days pass between infection and admission.
The DIVI register is managed by the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine together with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
Seven-day incidence continues to rise
The seven-day incidence of new infections has been increasing for weeks, but not quite as strongly as before at times in the last few days. According to the RKI on Sunday, it was 74.1 – the previous day the value was 72.1, a week ago it was 54.5. The health authorities in Germany reported 8,416 new corona infections and 12 deaths to the RKI within one day.
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