We're now treating people from Grand Est across the border here in Germany. Grand Est has 5,479 identified cases - on a population of only 5.5 million. As of yesterday they had 3,068 corona cases in hospitals and 651 in ICU. The number of hospitalized suggests the actual number of infected in the region should be around 15,000.
Capacity is stated at maximum 900 in ICU, half the per-capita rate of Germany. Since that capacity includes general cases though and the number of cases is rapidly rising, they're currently scrambling to move patients to places outside the region that still have capacity. This includes using medevac Airbus aircraft of the French Air Force and - for higher capacity than that - a modified TGV high-speed train. Patients are now being transferred to neighboring German states as well as to Luxembourg.
Officially there have been 279 deaths of people tested positive ante-mortem in Grand Est, as well as 247 deaths of people with coronavirus symptoms who were not tested. Deaths have included medical personnel.
P.S. on that: Just read that in Grand Est they've begun triaging patients for ventilators as witnessed by observers of the German Institute for Catastrophe Medicine - if you're over 80 they just pump you full with opiates instead to ease your death. If hospital staff is infected they'll continue working, just only in the sections for corona virus patients. And that's in the university clinic of Strasbourg 80 miles from me, not in some small backwater hospital.
In the particularly hard-hit area around Mulhouse the French Army has erected field hospitals. Mulhouse is considered the epicenter of the outbreak in Grand Est with a religious meetup of 2,000 members of an evangelical church in late February as the incubator.
Capacity is stated at maximum 900 in ICU, half the per-capita rate of Germany. Since that capacity includes general cases though and the number of cases is rapidly rising, they're currently scrambling to move patients to places outside the region that still have capacity. This includes using medevac Airbus aircraft of the French Air Force and - for higher capacity than that - a modified TGV high-speed train. Patients are now being transferred to neighboring German states as well as to Luxembourg.
Officially there have been 279 deaths of people tested positive ante-mortem in Grand Est, as well as 247 deaths of people with coronavirus symptoms who were not tested. Deaths have included medical personnel.
P.S. on that: Just read that in Grand Est they've begun triaging patients for ventilators as witnessed by observers of the German Institute for Catastrophe Medicine - if you're over 80 they just pump you full with opiates instead to ease your death. If hospital staff is infected they'll continue working, just only in the sections for corona virus patients. And that's in the university clinic of Strasbourg 80 miles from me, not in some small backwater hospital.
In the particularly hard-hit area around Mulhouse the French Army has erected field hospitals. Mulhouse is considered the epicenter of the outbreak in Grand Est with a religious meetup of 2,000 members of an evangelical church in late February as the incubator.
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