Austria and Switzerland have ~ 8.75 M people. Ireland has 5. Germany 82.5. Ireland has ~ 1/5 (20%) of the population infected at this point - whereas Germany has ~ 1/10. I wish these charts would compare like with like - comparing Ireland and Germany on the same chart for totals of anything is misleading to say the least. On a per-capita basis, it looks like AT/CH are approx. 12%? More importantly, how are hospitalisations running?
We have > 50% (exact no. not released) ICU patients not vaccinated out of ~ 95% over-18's vaccinated! Implicit assumption no (or very few) < 18 in ICU!
@Vérace-getVACCINATEDNOW We have about 10% of the hospitalisations who are vaccinated and 90% not vaccinated out of about 100 cases / day. But even though the infection rate is still rising the hospitalisation rate is on the decline.
Total of infected per Mio for each country.
So Germany is lagging somewhat. Whereas Ireland has taken the lead. Switzerland is currently in second place.
@JohnK.N. - unfortunately, I only have a figure of "more than 50%..." (from Paul Reid on radio y'day - he's head of the HSE, our health authority) - I have noted for a while now that they never give a percentage like you are able to from Switzerland. I suspect that the public would be outraged! Has that number not caused a furore in CH? 90% vs. 10%? These swine are clogging up the hospital system!
To tie this back to a previous thread, Germany is lagging somewhat. Whereas Ireland has taken the lead. Switzerland is currently in second place. - if only they were talking about the Olympics! :-)
@Vérace-getVACCINATEDNOW I thought I might have to bring some humour (albeit dark black) into the discussion.
It's not that bad in Switzerland, because only 37% of ICU beds are COVID patients.
gray = free beds; lighter violet = Non Covid; dark violet = Covid
So of the 37% of the 875 ICU beds available in hospitals in Switzerland, only about 250 are occupied by non-vaccinated Covid patients.
I think the most problematic issue about this situation is that the hospital staff in ICU have been at it for two years. They've been doing overtime and skipping holidays to keep the whole country running. And clapping doesn't help much.
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And then there is the psychological effect that the percentage of people dying in ICU is higher for Covid patients and that is probably what is causing the hospital staff to have burnouts and/or quit their jobs. It's just too much.
Our government is being very transparent about the whole situation. And that is probably part of the problem why people don't follow rules/regulations/laws. They see a fancy chart and say: "Hey, the whole situation isn't that bad..." without being able to understand what they are seeing.
@JohnK.N. - totally agree, and again I don't know the situation in CH, but here elective procedures are getting "bumped" - and many are not that "elective" - kids with scoliosis having their spines straightened and other important interventions. Waiting lists are going up... the real death toll will not be those who simply died of Covid-19 complications, but also those who died because they didn't/couldn't receive timely treatment because resources are being diverted to Covid!
Also burnout, as with you, is an issue! Student nurses getting "conscripted" into hospitals with no pay... (being (or has been) rectified)... It's (partly) the kids not having essential ops that enrages me... Society "forces" me to wear a seat belt (being doing it all my life and would never stop), forces me not to smoke in bars/restaurants (in complete agreement there also)...
HPV is another one... extremely effective vaccine which saves women's (and some men's) lives with a low uptake! Results are nothing short of astonishing!
Ah, well, rant over, back to the grindstone I'll drop by later!
Good morning to everyone except old versions of SQLCMD that limit XML column to 1MB and Microsoft Connect which apparent had this documented, but can't find, because it's retired...
We have managed to stay free of it. Even baby has had two Modernas now from a trial she is in. We don't do any indoor dining, no indoor unmasked activities. Daycare for the baby is the highest risk we have since she can't wear a mask, but they are fully masked and vaxxed and tested regularly. Kids test every week at school, too, but they are virtual for time being since the cases got so high.
The kids actually get paid $10 per test they take at school. Baby getting like $1300 for being in the study. Wife and I do the drive-through testing every few weeks, just to put another stake in the sand and we have some self-tests we use before get-togethers like Christmas.
@Lamak Well, early results said that it wasn't giving the level of antibodies they had hoped, so we are hoping that this study is extended to a booster. They will track her for like up to 2 years since the start, I think. We think she did not get placebo because she did have some lymph node reaction.
