16 months, 30,000 deaths: The sad reality of the virus in Hungary

Five patients died over the past 24 hours, while 55 new Covid infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday. With this, the number of Hungarian victims exceeded 30,000.

It is not possible to get away from such a global trauma without loss, but things could have turned out better. Within Europe, relative to the population, the most fatalities have been registered in Hungary. Maybe the negative “record” that Hungary holds could have been avoided. There are more than 3,000 Hungarian victims of the epidemic per million people; only the Czech Republic and Bulgaria are approaching this rate somewhat. Only in Slovakia, Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, and Croatia did the number of fatalities cross the 2,000 line.

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444 writes that rich countries also suffered, with deaths rising in Germany or the Netherlands during the autumn-winter wave, but nowhere as steep as in Hungary.

According to Telex, it would be more accurate to phrase the statistics this way: since March last year, 30,000 fatalities have been registered of those who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

It is extremely difficult to determine how many of the 30,000 fatalities (corresponding to the population of Kiskunfélegyháza) were direct deaths from Covid-19.

In many cases in the second and third waves of the epidemic, it was clear that death was caused by pneumonia, severe respiratory failure, or multiorgan inflammation due to the coronavirus infection. In other cases, it was more characteristic that the organs of often elderly patients, already weakened by various chronic diseases, tumours, and cardiovascular diseases, could no longer cope with the virus. In this case, it is more difficult to determine the primary cause of death – some of these patients would have died even from an influenza pandemic.