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More and more experts are calling for a lockdown for all in Austria due to the increasing number of covid-19 intensive care patients. “It’s not going to work out otherwise,” said Rainer Thell, senior physician in charge of the emergency department at Donaustadt Hospital, formerly SMZ Ost, in an interview with APA. “It can not be that in Salzburg people die, no courageous decisions are made that are obvious,” he criticized.
“Now you can still relieve Salzburg and fly patients out to Vienna and Lower Austria.” Because there are still beds for Covid 19 patients there, for example, he says. He cannot accept that dying is allowed, Thell said.
“If we don’t show solidarity now, when will we?”
“If we’re not in solidarity now, when will we be?” the anesthesiologist and intensivist asked. “However, anyone who thinks that only Salzburg and Upper Austria are severely affected is mistaken,” he said. “The wave will continue. The Christmas business and the winter season are in the highest danger if we don’t put on the full brakes now,” Thell said.
That’s because “all regional, partial or pseudo-lockdowns will only drag the problem out, not push it down. It’s dragging on like a yeast dough for all of us in our minds,” the senior physician said. “We are simply running out of time. We can’t wait until the end of November either. With a temporary lockdown, we’re not screwing up, we’re investing in a very important thing: Advent and Christmas,” the physician said.
“The truth is that we all never live in total freedom, but only in degrees of freedom. And now we simply have to take a step back in terms of those who need to be treated in hospitals, that’s all.”
Microbiologist expects “hard lockdown”
Microbiologist Michael Wagner of the University of Vienna also finds it “difficult to imagine” that the current very high infection figures can actually be curbed with the current measures, including an unvaccinated lockdown. Without a “short, hard lockdown to bring the numbers down massively,” it probably won’t work, he told APA. Schools could only be kept open with a “really stringent protection concept.”
According to virologist Norbert Novotny, the tightened CoV measures will also not be enough to decisively reduce the number of new infections. The expert calls for further measures as “breakwaters so that this tsunami does not have too destructive an effect.”
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