FRESING, Germany — A triangle with an exclamation mark has the word “variant” written on it — a warning that has become increasingly common on wards where coronavirus patients are being treated in the Bavarian hospital in Freising.
Germany is gripped by a violent third wave of the pandemic, which has brought an increased number of infections of the more contagious British variant and left many younger patients sick.
“The third wave is clearly upon us,” the hospital’s 42-year-old medical director Thomas Marx told AFP.
Of the clinic’s 14 intensive care beds, five are currently occupied by Covid-19 patients.
The patients a…
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