A new analysis from the UK concludes that there are currently about 2000 people per week dying at home without Covid-19 because they cannot or do not want to use the health care system. These are mainly emergency patients with heart attacks and strokes as well as chronically ill people.

Delays cancer treatment

The German newspaper DIE ZEIT focuses on the high vacancy rates in German hospitals, which in some departments are as high as 70%. Even cancer examinations and organ transplants that were not acutely necessary for survival had been cancelled to make room for Covid-19 patients, but these have so far been largely absent.