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Officially, the number of infections in Poland in recent days has not exceeded 3,5 thousand. per day, there are 10-14 thousand tests performed. “Monitoring of infections is only conventional”, emphasizes Dr. Aneta Afelt. Dr. Grzesiowski says straightforwardly: we have a rapidly growing “ghost wave”, because according to official statistics – peace. “A summer wave of infections like mid-January,” he estimates. Let us remind you that then we were on the threshold of the highest increases in COVID-19 incidence. How many really infected can we have today? The assessment is possible thanks to the sewage.
- The number of recent tests for the presence of coronavirus is in the range of 10-13,3 thousand. The official number of infections is 3-5 thousand.
- However, Poles test themselves. «Daily (only) more than 40 are sold in pharmacies. tests to be performed by yourself »- informs Marcin Repelewicz from the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council
- “We have a rapidly growing” ghost wave “, because according to official statistics – calmness” – says Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski
- According to the doctor, in fact, we can even have 100-150 thousand. sick. “Summer wave of infections as in mid-January ’22, which is confirmed by sewage studies”
- More information can be found on the TvoiLokony home page
Pharmacist “has never sold so many tests since the beginning of a pandemic”
«In Poland, monitoring of coronavirus infections is only conventional. Testing is actually gone, we have more “on demand” testing when someone suspects an infection, or self-testing. So it is not known what number of infections we are dealing with »- emphasized Dr. Aneta Afelt, member of the COVID-19 advisory team at the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in a recent interview with Medonet.
The number of recent tests for the presence of coronavirus is in the range of 10-13,3 thousand. The official number of infections is 3-5 thousand. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health spoke recently about the testing itself: – We test people who are most at risk and test symptomatic people. Nobody knows if a patient needs to be tested better than a GP (…) When we had the fifth wave, let’s assume that a large number of people did not even go to the doctor, did not want to test themselves, so the reintroduction of common tests for these behaviors will not show us all infections anyway – said Wojciech Andrusiewicz.
It turns out, however, that Poles test themselves. «All around COVID. A town on the Baltic Sea. The pharmacist from the local pharmacy claims that she has never sold so many tests since the beginning of the pandemic »notes the immunologist Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski on social media. «Daily (only) more than 40 are sold in pharmacies. tests to be performed by yourself (…) And remember that they are also available outside pharmacies »adds Marcin Repelewicz from the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council.
COVID-19 in Poland – “in fact 100-150 thousand. infections »
It is worth recalling that recently Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska spoke about the results of the “official” testing. «The really worrying thing is that, after all, a third of all the tests we do are positive, or 33%. the people who are doing the tests now are infected people. I hope that this situation will normalize (…) »- he admitted a few days ago in the First Program of Polish Radio.
Dr. Grzesiowski assesses it straightforwardly: (…) So we have a rapidly growing “ghost wave”, because according to official statistics – peace. In another entry he adds: “Two parallel worlds: officially in the system of 14 thousand. tests a day, approx. 3-5 thousand infections; outside the 40 thousand system daily tests bought in pharmacies, approx. 20-30 thousand infections, and in fact 100-150 thousand. A summer wave of infections as in mid-January ’22, which is confirmed by sewage studies ».
Let us recall that in January, the highest COVID-19 wave in Poland began to date.
«Yes, the rate of build-up of this wave is faster, not only because of the lack of containment, but also because of the higher infectivity of BA.5 and its longer elimination. Many people do not isolate themselves, and after a few days of sickness at most, they return to work, and they can continue to be contagious. Let’s test ourselves! » – urges the doctor.
At medonetmarket.pl you will find home tests for SARS-CoV-2:
- COVID-19 Rapid Test – Antigenic Test for Self-Control
- COVID-19 antigen test – SGTi-flex COVID-19 Ag
- Home COVID-19 Ag SGTi-flex cartridge test
- COVID-19 – Rapid Saliva Antigen Test
Recently, virologist and immunologist Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska.
Dr. Aneta Afelt also talked about the monitoring of wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2. As she emphasized, it is a good way to show the actual scale of infection, including people who have no symptoms and do not suspect coronavirus infection at all.
What is such wastewater monitoring? ‘It’s analyzing them in terms of how much virus remains human excreted,’ explains Dr Afelt. – On this basis, it is possible to detect how many potential people in a given place are currently infected (even asymptomatic). This solution is used, inter alia, in in Italy, Germany or France. Unfortunately, this is not a systemic solution in Poland, he emphasizes. The latter has a chance to change.
The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate informed us that “together with the National Institute of Public Health, the National Institute of Hygiene-PIB is carrying out intensive work to create a national monitoring system for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater”.
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