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Corona incidence in Hamburg increases again

The corona incidence in Hamburg continues to rise.

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Corona incidence in Hamburg increases again

The corona incidence in Hamburg continues to rise. The health authority gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week on Tuesday as 213.3. In the past week the value was 193.9, in the week before 182.5. It was the second rise in a row after weeks of falling values. According to the information, 4063 new infections were added in the past week. The week before it was 3691.

Due to different calculation bases, the incidence given by Hamburg is higher than that of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The RKI gave the seven-day incidence for the Hanseatic city on Tuesday as 177.0, nationwide the value was 334.9.

However, the information only provides a very incomplete picture of the infection process. Since not all infected people have a PCR test done, a high number of unreported cases can be assumed. The health authority therefore stopped publishing the figures daily in May and has only given weekly overviews since then.

According to the authorities, the number of people infected with the corona virus in the Hanseatic city's hospitals fell slightly compared to the previous week from 186 to 185 (as of Monday). 18 patients were treated in intensive care units - one more than the week before. According to the RKI, the hospitalization incidence, i.e. the number of corona infected people admitted to Hamburg clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, fell from 1.84 to 1.51 within a week. Nationwide, the value was given as 5.17 on Tuesday.

In the meantime, researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have found in a comparative study that "subjectively perceived neurocognitive symptoms such as poorer concentration after a Covid-19 illness often do not correspond to an objectively recorded test performance". Rather, according to the study, these subjectively felt symptoms were often present before the person contracted Covid-19.

In the report on the study, the researchers point out the limitations of their study, as it is based on statements by the participants and only a small subgroup even reported such a disease. The researchers published their results in the journal Psychiatry Research.

According to the report, for the study, the scientists examined a sample of the general population in terms of memory and concentration performance and compared these results with data on neurocognitive performance in connection with lifestyle variables from the same participants collected in 2015 - i.e. before the corona pandemic .

“Our study aims to stimulate discussion. Subjectively, neurocognitive symptoms are often overestimated,” the first author of the study, Anna Baumeister from the UKE Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, is quoted as saying. At the same time, Long Covid is receiving a lot of media attention as a new clinical picture, “which means that those affected pay more attention to their own symptoms and can intensify or provoke them”. A well-differentiated diagnosis is therefore important "in order not to overlook any emotional problems that may arise or those that could result from dealing with the illness."

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