82 percent of beds in normal wards and 83 percent in intensive care units are occupied. The flu wave with an uncontrolled spread of the influenza virus has already begun.
The Corona winter wave reached its peak in December and stabilized again for two or three weeks, without pushing hospitals to the limit of their capacity. Given the high level of immunity in the population, this finding is not unusual and was expected.
But this does not mean that Vienna's clinics are not currently under severe pressure, after all, Austria is in the middle of the cold season, in which the flu wave has just broken out (as in most of Europe), directly replacing the corona wave . The number of other flu-like infections caused by viruses such as RS, adenovirus and rhinovirus has declined globally recently, but remains at a high level, as can also be seen in the illness rates of the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK ). .