The coronavirus is on the rise in the heart of this summer and in the middle of the holidays, with the hard indicators registering a sharp increase.
Over 2,600 antivirals doctors prescribe weekly for patients suffering from coronavirus, respectively preventing more than 2,600 hospitalizations.
Thanks to these drugs, some of these patients, mostly the elderly and those who are immunocompromised, are saved from certain death. They are those who had the misfortune of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, as a result of which they contracted the coronavirus.
According to the head of the competent Committee of the Ministry of Health for the approval and administration of Paxlovit antiviral treatments, Professor of Pulmonology and president of the Hellenic Pulmonology Society, Stelios Loukidis, doctors have been prescribing nationwide over the last month, more than 420 antiviral drugs weekdays and over 400 total throughout the weekend.
“We exceed 2,600 antivirals every week. The consumption is higher compared to Spring, since in May we gave only 70 to 80 boxes a day. It is, however, less consumption compared to Christmas, which had reached 2,000 per day. The outbreak of COVID-19 in the summer is always smaller than that at Christmas. However, now steadily in recent years there is an outbreak of the coronavirus in the summer as well”, says the doctor speaking to iatropedia.gr.
Increased hospitalizations in the Region, despite the antivirals administered by doctors
According to the scientists, the new admissions to the hospitals reflect how the summer wave of COVID-19 it has affected the periphery more than the major urban centers.
The vast majority of the 788 new weekly admissions recorded between July 15-21, according to the EODY, were in district hospitals.
In fact, they were much more than the previous week and more than doubled compared to the mere 306 imports in the corresponding week last year (2023).
The number of deaths was also twice as high as last week, with 35 patients dying in one week, compared to 17 in 2023.
According to the same data, 6 patients were intubated.
THE Arcadiathe Tripoli and the Crete they seem to be holding his “sceptres”. greater number of hospital admissions.
Professor Loukidis comments on the new data: “In Athens, imports are proportionally less, compared to the region, which is more. This is because populations move to the countryside more in the summer. In the Region there is also a longer delay in the administration of antivirals. Antiviral shortages, however, we in Athens have not seen. All the patients I gave to me found them immediately in a few hours”, notes the doctor.
Increase in viral load in 6 (out of 10) major cities
The situation cannot be ruled out to worsen next week, as the EODY in its epidemiological report has recorded a rather alarming increasing trend in the average weekly viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in urban sewage, six areas out of ten checked by the National Network of Wastewater Epidemiology (EDEL).
And specifically, in the following:
Patras (+99%)
Thessaloniki (+87%)
Xanthi (+66%)
Larisa (+51%)
Alexandroupolis (+50%)
Heraklion (+36%).
Possible errors in the administration of antivirals
“We have established that there is an error in the administration of the antivirals. Someone goes to their doctor and says “I don’t have a fever” and while they have age criteria or have co-morbidities, the doctor does not give them the medicine. This is wrong. The administration of antivirals is based on age and morbidity criteria, not on symptoms. In other words, “if your throat hurts you take it, if your throat doesn’t hurt you don’t take it”, he notes.
The doctor emphasizes that any symptom is not a criterion for the administration of antivirals, since when fever, shortness of breath or something else worrisome appears, it is usually too late to start treatment, which prevents hospitalization. Antiviral drugs should be given no later than 3 days after diagnosis.
“There is a group of people who, because they don’t have a fever, colleagues don’t give them antivirals. There is no indication of antivirals based on symptoms anywhere. Nor does one wait to see symptoms or worsening symptoms on the third or fourth day after diagnosis to take antivirals. Then it’s too late and they won’t act. And finally the patients end up in hospitals. It is a wrong tactic”, concludes the scientist.
Source: iatropedia.gr
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