Twitter user tells his Covid story: The unvaccinated is in the intensive care unit for 19 days: When he is moved, the doctor has tears in his eyes
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19 days of intensive care, only ten percent lung volume and now an oxygen station: In dramatic words, a Twitter user traces his ordeal after his corona infection over several tweets. He said he was not vaccinated. Because he wanted to wait for a dead vaccine.
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A Twitter user shared his story of Corona suffering with his 1200 followers this Saturday. And it has it all: Lauris M. was in the intensive care unit for 19 days and his lung function sagged threateningly far. Today he needs an oxygen station to help him breathe. In his contribution, the user describes them as his “new constant companion”.
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Shock in the intensive care unit: lung function dropped to 10 percent
What happened? As the user describes, a positive PCR test at the end of November revealed that he suffered from the delta variant of the coronavirus. After the first symptoms, he went to the clinic on the advice of his family doctor. There then the shock: Within the first two days, his lung function had plummeted. Except for a mere ten percent.
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Exactly what value he means by this remains open, but for comparison: A person who suffers from the lung disease COPD usually still has a maximum of 70 percent of his lung function. The amount of air that can be exhaled within the first second of maximum exertion after maximum inhalation is measured. In severe COPD cases, this value is less than 30 percent of the target value.
After 19 days in intensive care units, the senior doctor hugs the patient with tears in his eyes
How dramatic the case of the Twitter user was, he himself only realized when he was transferred from the intensive care unit after 19 days. The senior doctor went to his bed and hugged him. With tears in the eyes. He was the only patient who could have been transferred in his 19 days’ stay.
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The intensive situation in Germany remains tense. The number of intensive care patients has stabilized in the past few days at a still relatively high level. The hospitalization incidence (number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days) was given by the RKI on Friday at 4.55. Recently, significantly fewer districts had reported intensive emergencies. But in view of the approaching Omikron wave and the overloaded nursing staff, experts warn that the intensive capacities can also quickly dwindle again.
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The President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Gernot Marx, told the “Rheinische Post”: “The workload is still very high, the workload is even higher, the psychological stress on the teams is sometimes very serious what is humanly possible, because the number of Covid patients in intensive care units is also falling because a large number of patients are dying. “
The mathematician Kristan Schneider has calculated four scenarios for FOCUS Online, how many new infections an Omicron wave, depending on the infectiousness, can bring. The result: up to 700,000 in the worst case. When? Probably in February or March. And even if Omikron is, according to previous knowledge, milder than Delta, the intensive care units would again reach their limits.
Twitter user wanted to wait for dead vaccine: Now he is still dependent on the oxygen device
But back to the Twitter user. After he was transferred back to the normal ward, he realized how lucky he was. His lung function is now around 50 percent. Still low, but nothing compared to the 10 percent in the intensive care unit. His condition is constantly improving. However, he is still dependent on the oxygen device.
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The last part of his article shows how things got this far: The user wanted to wait before vaccinating. The dead or protein vaccine from Valneva or Novavax. The European Medicines Agency recently gave the green light for Novavax to be used in Europe.
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The user’s waiting came to an abrupt end when his corona infection tied him to the intensive care unit for 19 days and then to the oxygen tank. “That was a mistake that almost cost me my life and now ensures a strenuous way back to normal life,” he writes.
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A “mistake” that even the boss of the dead vaccine manufacturer Valneva wants to prevent: “I do not advise anyone to wait for our vaccine,” Thomas Lingelbach told “Spiegel” a few days ago. And further: “I made a call. Get vaccinated now!”
For the Twitter user this insight comes too late, but for other vaccine skeptics his story may cause a rethink.
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