WSD13 Berlin Follow Up

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Let me take you on a quick photo/video summary of our trip to Berlin for World Sepsis Day:

When we arrived at the Brandenburg Gate, we found the team setting up chairs, 600 of them. They’re a visual display, not meant for sitting.

Fortunately, Ed brought his own seat.

So much going on – including the removal of a big pile of snow. I’m not sure what they were promoting, but apparently the time window for their permit had ended.

600 chairs, each one representing 300 people who had sepsis in the last year, just in Germany

1/3 of the sepsis patients do not survive or 60,000 people die from sepsis in Germany every year

Happily, 120,000 do survive every year. This woman has coreographed a dance about sepsis. It was performed at Hauptbahnof earlier in the day. She said they took all kinds of artistic people behind the scenes to see the research that’s being done and asked them to communicate via their medium about sepsis.

Ed chatting with another sepsis survivor. This frail, young man is recently released from the hospital. He became ill over a year ago! His sepsis resulted from a small scratch. He needed surgery, and actually had sepsis twice during this time. They’re making a documentary about his experience.