Twitter image causes a sensation: One spades or fifty preparations?

Forty-six vials, five packs and various bags filled with liquid.

On their labels (for non-medical professionals) there are dazzling and sometimes incomprehensible names such as alfentanil or midazolam.

This impressive pictorial compilation of the presumably daily drug cocktail of a Covid patient treated in the intensive care unit caused a sensation on the Internet platform Twitter under the hashtag #getthejab (get the vaccination).

The picture was uploaded by the intensive care doctor David Windsor from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in England. He is active on Twitter under the pseudonym "drfrocester". He describes himself as a married father of two children with a passion for intensive care and the NHS healthcare system in England. In his most recent posts on the forum, he mainly dealt with the corona situation and the effectiveness of vaccinations. In one of his profile pictures he can be seen as a hiker, followed by a small flock of sheep. The group of his followers (subscribers) on Twitter is significantly larger with 3,500 people. After the cocktail post on November 5th, the amount should have grown sharply to that number. Around 40,000 people liked the article.

The virologist Christian Drosten published the picture the following day on his Twitter channel with the comment: "That is very impressive." The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach also shared the article. Both doctors pointed out the possible side effects of the drugs shown in the picture. For everyone who has so far rejected the corona vaccination with the argument of possible side effects or long-term consequences, the message should be clear and formulated as follows: Those who continue to refuse the vaccination must expect a range of drugs in view of the increasing numbers of infections and increasingly full intensive care units to be instructed as she gathers "drfrocester".

In an interview with Stern magazine, the intensive care physician Stefan Kluge describes the presentation as "realistic".

The picture shows the essential drugs for anesthesia, artificial nutrition, pain treatment and circulatory stabilization of ventilated Covid patients.