Erasmus MC doctor Diederik Gommers (member of the Outbreak Management Team) thinks – in contrast to the top of Horeca Nederland – that the government has taken weak measures now that corona infections in the large cities are increasing so massively. He said that on Friday evening in the Op1 program. He also criticized the lack of success in source and contact research. He said he hoped that after the first wave of infections, progress would have been made on this very point. But that turns out not to be the case.
Gommers’ comments keep pace with the now general opinion in our country that the government is not ready for a second corona wave. There is still controversy about the usefulness of wearing mouth masks. There is no clarity about the need for the five feet in the outdoor area. The source and contact investigation goes wrong. There is insufficient capacity in the laboratories to conduct the tests and there are crazy differences in the number of hospital admissions. Gommers said yesterday evening that Erasmus is ” full again ”, while the figures from the GGDs do not show this and the number of deaths as a result of Covid19 remains relatively low.
In any case, it is clear that Friday, with nearly 2,000 nationally diagnosed infections, the highest number has been reached since the outbreak in March this year. And that it can also be established with certainty that if the young people had been tested in March and April of this year, the infection rates among the young would have been just as high as now. For reassurance: the people who end up in hospital with corona symptoms do not stay there as long as in March and April.
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