Despite the relatively small increase in the number of ICU patients, Diederik Gommers, chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care, thinks it is too early for optimism this weekend. “Only when there is more outflow than inflow, do I start to be satisfied,” he said in TV program On 1. “I want to see the top first and then it will go down.”
Last day, 25 corona patients were added to the intensive care unit. This brings the total number to 1385. Yesterday the increase was 36 patients.
‘Very exciting’
“It shouldn’t actually increase by more than forty a day,” Gommers said. “We are expected to have 2,000 corona patients in the ICU in fourteen days. That is already too much. There is more and more strain on the staff and they have to keep it up for longer. That is very exciting.”
He said that it is therefore incredibly important for IC doctors and nurses that Dutch people adhere to the measures. “When I see those images from the parks today, I think I am. That could just lead to a new outbreak.”
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