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Germany celebrates this Christmas Eve with black trim and a new record of deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours: 962 people with names and surnames that were added to a relationship that already adds

27,968 deaths

so far this year

from or with coronavirus.

And the prospects are not good.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for virology, which is responsible for monitoring the pandemic in this country, there are now about 5,000 people in intensive care units, half of them on assisted respiration.

For Dr.

Thomas Voshaar,

chief pulmonologist at Bethanien in Moers hospital and president of the association of pneumology clinics in Germany, an invasive method that is now proven to increase mortality in patients.

"It is intubated too quickly despite the complications that may arise from it and that has not been one of the great errors in the fight against the coronavirus," says Voshaar and ensures that

50% of intubated Covid-19 patients die.

"Medicine has to find another way, especially when it comes to elderly patients.

Prolonged sedation in older patients poses a greater risk and we have known this for a decade

. The question here is that we have been guided by the methods of Observations applied at the beginning of the pandemic in China, which seemed to indicate that many people died when they were intubated too late. It was the wrong strategy, "the specialist emphasizes.

Intubation involves two to three weeks of intensive care, to which are added another three weeks in the ward for those who survive them, which puts many hospitals at the limit of their capacity, often unnecessarily.

At the Voshaar pulmonary clinic, 250 Covid-19 patients have been treated since the beginning of the pandemic, of whom only 15 have died. The mortality rate in that center is 5.5%.

The average in German hospitals is 22%, including all age groups.

"We - and that is a strategy that is being discussed with colleagues around the world -

intubate as late as possible or, better yet, we do not intubate,

" he says.

RKI president

Lothar Wieler is looking

forward to "very tough" weeks.

Despite the restrictions imposed by the different administrations, infections and deaths are increasing, and it

is foreseeable that there will be a new rebound after the Christmas holidays

.

In Germany as a whole, the cumulative incidence in the last seven days is 195.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Especially alarming is the situation in Saxony (eastern part of the country), where the weekly incidence per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 414.1, more than double the average for the country as a whole.

In the focus of the pandemic in this

Land

is Zittau.

So many are the deaths that have been registered in that city that its mayor,

Thomas Zenker

, has been forced to free the warehouse where the emergency material for floods is kept due to lack of space in the crematoriums.

Zittau has registered more deaths so far this month than last year, 115 compared to 45.

Germany has been under drastic restrictions since the 16th.

All businesses are closed, except essential ones.

The calls to the public to avoid unnecessary trips and to restrict personal contacts to the maximum are constant.

The "most difficult" phase of the pandemic will extend

, according to the German Executive, until February, at least.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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