Working in a private hospital in Samsun, chest disease specialist Prof. Dr. Şevket Özkaya has warned of the increase in Covid cases.
Ozkaia, “We can say that the cases of pulmonary involvement that we saw in the first days of the pandemic have started to appear again. We don’t want to go back to the beginning. We don’t want to see more serious cases. That’s why this winter, especially in mass activities, New Year’s Eve is coming, we should take care to wear masks as much as possible in crowded environments and stay away from the crowd. Otherwise, these lung involvements before the new year will bring back the bans after the new year.” She said.
Ozkaya said:
“COVID CASES HAVE INCREASED IN THE LAST MONTH”
“We can say that we have not seen any cases of Covid since April and May of 2022. Although there were only a few cases of Covid, there was no lung involvement and we knew that current vaccines prevented lung involvement. An increase in Covid cases has only started in the last month, but we have not yet monitored lung involvement.
We still thought the vaccines protected him, but I think as the number of Covid cases increased and the effectiveness of existing vaccines decreased and vaccination decreased, the lung involvement that we expected after the new year has started again. This means that in the early days of Covid, we were seeing positive cases of Covid, but not lung involvement. We were very panicked at the time and after a while we saw that he started going down to his lungs.
“BECAUSE OF THE COVID EPIDEMIC THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE LUNGS COMES BACK TO US”
Now new pulmonary involvements have begun to arrive, like the first cases in the early days of the Covid epidemic. We have started to observe pulmonary involvement, especially if over 60 and one year after vaccination. What does it mean, especially if at least 6 months have passed since the over 60s were vaccinated, and if the right to vaccination has been granted, the over 60s must be vaccinated. Because we can say that the pulmonary involvement we saw at the beginning of the Covid epidemic has returned to us again. There is also an epidemic that affects all people in society, where we cannot distinguish whether it is flu or Covid right now.
“WE DON’T WANT TO RETURN TO THE TOP, WE DON’T WANT TO SEE OTHER SERIOUS CASES”
We always say that by now almost everyone has encountered Covid. Everyone has the Covid virus, and mostly because there’s a viral load on the ground, other viruses that didn’t make us sick before the pandemic, respiratory viruses, viruses we call RSV and influenza, which we call RSV, I’m very easily sick now, and flu and similar symptoms, which we will recover in 1-2 days, continue for weeks and months. Especially if the cough is persistent. We can say that almost the entire society is now struggling with cough ailments.
Therefore, we advise them to be vaccinated again with anti-Covid vaccines, especially if they are over 60 years old and 6 months or more have passed since the anti-Covid vaccine. Because we can say that the cases of lung involvement that we saw in the early days of the pandemic have started to show up again. We don’t want to go back to the beginning. We don’t want to see more serious cases.
That is why this winter, especially in the mass activities, the New Year is coming, we must take care to wear masks as much as possible in the crowded environment on New Year’s Eve, and we must be careful to stay away from the crowd. Otherwise, these lung surgeries before Christmas will bring back the bans after New Year’s.”
(HANDLE)
