MANGALURU: Many Covid-19 patients being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were not fully vaccinated when they were first admitted, say doctors Mangaluru. For example, at Wenlock District Hospital, 10 out of 12 patients in the ICU are not double-jedded.
Dr Sharath Babu, a pulmonologist at the hospital, told TOI that patients were able to fight the disease for a longer duration, close to a month, due to better treatment strategies. “Most of the people who fall ill now are non-immunised. We are seeing very few vaccinated elderly patients who are sick. Most of the elderly patients under treatment are comrades,” he said.
Dr Babu said: “Being vaccinated does not mean that one will not get sick. But as we are at the end of the second wave, we can say with certainty that younger patients who are vaccinated have a lower disease severity. In the last one month, we have seen that vaccines are quite effective in protecting people from serious illness and death. With the test positivity rate declining in the last one week, the daily admission has come down to five.”
Dr Farhan Fazal, Consultant for Infectious Diseases at KMC Hospital has also observed a similar trend. He said that the number of people who are fully vaccinated in the ICU is much less than the patients who were not vaccinated. “The ICU caseload has decreased, while our understanding of the disease has improved. Hence, we are able to manage the disease better,” he explained.
Patient spent 4 months in hospital
a 45-year-old man who had serious covid Spent about four months in the Intensive Care Unit of Wenlock Hospital. Babu said, “Since the patient is suffering from post-Covid sequelae and needs external oxygen support, he has been shifted to Taluk Covid Health Centre.” The person was admitted on May 15.
Dr Sharath Babu, a pulmonologist at the hospital, told TOI that patients were able to fight the disease for a longer duration, close to a month, due to better treatment strategies. “Most of the people who fall ill now are non-immunised. We are seeing very few vaccinated elderly patients who are sick. Most of the elderly patients under treatment are comrades,” he said.
Dr Babu said: “Being vaccinated does not mean that one will not get sick. But as we are at the end of the second wave, we can say with certainty that younger patients who are vaccinated have a lower disease severity. In the last one month, we have seen that vaccines are quite effective in protecting people from serious illness and death. With the test positivity rate declining in the last one week, the daily admission has come down to five.”
Dr Farhan Fazal, Consultant for Infectious Diseases at KMC Hospital has also observed a similar trend. He said that the number of people who are fully vaccinated in the ICU is much less than the patients who were not vaccinated. “The ICU caseload has decreased, while our understanding of the disease has improved. Hence, we are able to manage the disease better,” he explained.
Patient spent 4 months in hospital
a 45-year-old man who had serious covid Spent about four months in the Intensive Care Unit of Wenlock Hospital. Babu said, “Since the patient is suffering from post-Covid sequelae and needs external oxygen support, he has been shifted to Taluk Covid Health Centre.” The person was admitted on May 15.
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