Corona taxis in Germany
In the empty streets and deserted streets of Heidelberg, Germany, the paramedics in the protective vehicles have been named Cocorona Taxi. Who visits home and checks for suspected corona patients who have had a fever for five or six days. It takes blood samples to determine if the patient is going to be severely ill. He advises all such people to be admitted to the hospital. They also have patients with minor symptoms, because the disease that starts after admission to the hospital increases their chances of recovery.
According to Professor Hans George Krauslech, in-charge of the virology department at Heidelberg University Hospital, it starts on the first weekend and if you are a person who may have lung failure, then your condition may worsen.
Although Heidelberg's Corona Taxi is a city initiative, it requires German officials to live up to their pledge to fight the plague by spending public funds for the welfare of their people. This solves the mystery of what could be the cause of the dramatic drop in inpatient mortality in Germany from this global epidemic.
The coronavirus and the contagious disease spread to Germany with the same intensity as its neighbors.
Hendrik Strick, director of the Institute of Virology at the University Hospital in Bonn, said: "There is a lot of talk about the regularity of the German mortality rate because Professor Strick wants to find out why in the United States and elsewhere. For one thing, the average age of patients in Germany is lower than in other countries. The first patients to be infected with the virus were in Joao Pessoa and the Ski Resort in Austria.
Thus it was a plague of scarecrows. According to Professor Krausleich, when the disease first broke out two weeks ago, the death rate in the elderly was 2%, which was relatively low even after the number of infected patients increased, as the average age in Germany was 49 years. The average was 62 years according to Italy and 62.5 years according to France, as announced in recent national reports by both.
The second reason is that Germany is testing more people than any other country. Second, in Germany, people are tested for some symptoms and without symptoms, which has led to an increase in the number of cases reported. But the death rate has not increased. But according to epidemiologists and viral pathologists, there are other notable medical issues that have led to lower mortality rates for corona patients in Germany. The most common of these are early diagnosis and large-scale testing of the disease. In addition to treatment, ample provision of care beds was also made possible. In addition, the recommendation of the government to keep the people away from the assembly was a great help in implementing it with the confidence of the people.
In mid-January, when German citizens did not even care much about the coronavirus, a test for the coronavirus was prepared at a charity hospital in Berlin and its formula was made online. By the time the first case of corona occurred in February, German laboratories had mass-produced and stored its test kits. The diagnosis was made on a scale. This was stated by Dr. Christian Droston, who was part of the team at the charity hospital that developed the corona test. Germany now tests about 350,000 coronae every week, more than any other European country. By isolating patients identified by initial and large-scale tests, authorities have succeeded in slowing the spread of the disease, making timely treatment possible.
In this way, the patient can be attached to the ventilator before his condition worsens, which increases the patient's survival rate. Professor Kauslech says medical staff is at high risk of contracting the virus, so they should be tested regularly. In some hospitals in Germany, the staff is tested in a block test. That is, 10 employees are swab-tested and individual tests are performed only when one of the tests is positive.
At the end of April, health officials plan to conduct randomly weekly antibody tests on 100,000 healthy patients across Germany to determine where resistance to corona is increasing. Is.
According to Professor Streak, the basis for large-scale testing should be that it is free. In the early weeks of the epidemic, there was a significant difference between the United States and Germany, while in the United States, the Coronavirus relief bill was passed by Congress last month, which now allows people to be tested for free.
Professor Streak says he learned in late February that a 22-year-old man had tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time at his Bonn hospital without any symptoms of the disease.
But at the school where he worked, when he was told that he had attended a carnival, one of the participants had a positive corona test.
In most countries of the world, including the United States, most tests are limited to sick patients
In most countries of the world, including the United States, most tests are limited to sick patients. So it was more likely that he would be refused the test.
After the case, 235 people were tested in Germany.
Identifying and tracking was a strategy that was very successful in South Korea, which we also needed to learn. According to Professor Streak, Germany had adopted the same strategy after making a mistake in the beginning. Therefore, all the people who came to Germany from Ashgal were identified and tested, because the coronavirus was found in this Austrian ski resort. Was attacked.
The professor added that before the outbreak of the coronavirus in Germany, there were 173 ventilators at the University Hospital in Gassen. The hospital added 40 beds to the care staff so that they could be used in a timely manner. I had half a bed of intensive care. Therefore, Germany is stronger in the field of intensive care. In the month of January, Germany had 28,000 ventilators.
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