Horst Olschewski, Ernst Eber, Brigitte Bucher, Klaus Hackner, Sabin Handzhiev, Konrad Hoetzenecker, Marco Idzko, Walter Klepetko, Gabor Kovacs, Bernd Lamprecht, Judith Löffler-Ragg, Michael Meilinger, Alexander Müller, Christian Prior, Otmar Schindler, Helmut Täubl, Angela Zacharasiewicz, Ralf Harun Zwick, Britt-Madelaine Arns, Josef Bolitschek, Katharina Cima, Elisabeth Gingrich, Maximilian Hochmair, Fritz Horak, Peter Jaksch, Roland Kropfmüller, Andreas Pfleger, Bernhard Puchner, Christoph Puelacher, Patricia Rodriguez, Helmut J F Salzer, Peter Schenk, Ingrid Stelzmüller, Volker Strenger, Matthias Urban, Marlies Wagner, Franz Wimberger, Holger Flick
The Austrian Society of Pneumology (ASP) launched a first statement on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in May 2020, at a time when in Austria 285 people had died from this disease and vaccinations were not available. Lockdown and social distancing were the only available measures to prevent more infections and the breakdown of the health system. Meanwhile, in Austria over 13,000 patients have died in association with a SARS-CoV‑2 infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was among the most common causes of death; however, SARS-CoV‑2 has been mutating all the time and currently, most patients have been affected by the delta variant where the vaccination is very effective but the omicron variant is rapidly rising and becoming predominant...
May 2022: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift