Heads of major hospitals find that vaccination of people in risk groups is still the most effective measure for alleviating next fall's coronavirus wave and avoiding lockdowns. There is no way to hire enough extra staff or refit hospitals before then.
The number of people hospitalized due to severe COVID-19 has fallen in the last few days. The figures suggest stabilization, while there is no alleviation yet in term of hospitals' workload as the Covid wave has reached the elderly, Urmas Sule, head of the Health Board's crisis headquarters, said.
Urmas Sule, the Emergency medicine chief at the Health Board (Terviseamet), says the fact that more children are hospitalized with coronavirus shortens the time that those who have contracted the virus spend in hospitals, as children generally recover faster.
Health Board (Terviseamet) emergency medicine chief Urmas Sule said the workload in the health care system is growing - more and more children are becoming infected with coronavirus and hospitals in general, are overcrowded with other patients.