Professor Dror Mevorach, director of the Corona Department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, spoke this morning (Wednesday) with Ben Caspit and Winon Magal on 103FM, and sharply criticized all opponents of the closure. He particularly blamed those experts who in his method distort reality. He expanded and shared his experiences as director of the corona department, warning of the long-term consequences of this disease: “I have seen seven cases of dramatic post-corona syndrome with people coming to market with a heart that is barely functioning. The latter is 23.”
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“I think that alongside the openness to other opinions, there are limits that each of us is not willing to tolerate. I am not willing for someone to come and say wrong facts and as a result draw conclusions. I heard on TV yesterday Dr. Yehezkeli, a family doctor, who may be a great doctor and a good man. But he said that there is no change in the state of the departments today compared to what was in the winter of 2018. It is just nonsense. “
Inspectors in the Carmel market in the third closure. Photo: Avshalom Shashoni
“The situation today is that we have 120 corona patients with 5 new wards that are just Corona, there is a very large load on the staffs so this group calling itself the National Emergency Council is a group that misleads the public. It is not a different opinion, it is misleading the public facts. Everyone who runs a corona ward who thinks like him, there are 100 who run corona wards who do not think so. Qimron has seen a corona patient? He is not a doctor. From this disease? “
What is the motivation?
“Some kind of intellectualization of their thoughts because it’s people who started with the saying ‘why in the country does not have the Swedish model?’, And in the process understood or did not understand that the Swedish model does not exist, and if it exists the Swedish king admitted it was a complete failure. But they continued to argue. “Natural vaccination is the best thing, that herd vaccination will solve all the problems, they said ‘do not defend yourself, let the disease do its thing and we will get along’. Month after month they made a mistake and it was clearly proven.”
What is happening in your ward and what should be done?
“We have 120 patients today. That means we are not at the peak of 165 patients as it was in September-October, but the rate of patients has gone up. Although we have learned to be more efficient, treat better, release faster and not hospitalize people who do not need, the load is very heavy on The staff. Internal wards have been reduced in favor of the Corona and we have been working like this for ten months with the breaks that were after previous closures. There are two problems here – there is a danger to medicine, not a collapse of the system but we harm all hospitals and non-Corona patients because we reduce their treatment “.
“We do not have enough inpatient wards. There is very significant mortality and morbidity. When there are 10,000 patients a day, about 60 patients will die. Two to three percent will be hospitalized and become severe patients with significant morbidity. We are beginning to understand that corona has long-term effects in some patients. Without a sense of taste and smell, developed such and such symptoms, I have seen seven cases of dramatic post-corona with a syndrome that people come on the market with a heart that is barely functioning. The latter is 23 “.
There are doctors on the other side who claim that you do not release mild patients and thus a load is created.
“It’s a bunch of people who don’t care for Corona. What do you mean we don’t release mild patients? What’s this nonsense? It’s another plot. What do we have reason to keep patients we don’t want to release? We are happy to release patients and do everything possible to release them.”
Are there political considerations in managing the struggle?
“I do not know, I come from a professional approach. I am told you will see a closure serving Bibi and I say can be. I know that when there are 8,000 or so patients a day a closure must be made. As a doctor I say in such a situation one should stop immediately.”
Have you developed a drug, does it affect your decisions?
“The drug I developed, and I’m proud of it, came after 30 years of research. What does this have to do with the medical decisions I make as a department head and warn the public about a serious illness? Does it increase the value of the drug or lower it? They will test and decide if the drug is good or bad. connection?”.