The fifth wave may not (yet) be the greatest threat to intensive care, but it does threaten to bring our society to a standstill. According to the scenarios presented by virologist Steven Van Gucht at the press conference after the Consultation Committee yesterday, the health institute Sciensano expects a peak of 30,000 to 125,000 infections per day in mid-January, and a peak of 400 to 1,300 hospital admissions per day by the end of January. If there are effectively 125,000 new infections per day, we will easily have more than half a million people in one week who have to get sick.
125,000 infections a day: can we handle that? “Society threatens to come to a standstill for 2 to 4 weeks” | Coronavirus what you need to know
