The figures for this weekend show devastating numbers in this second wave of coronavirus. With 55,000 more infections since Friday, it is a record number for the weekend. Thus, the autonomous communities are striving to take restrictive measures, which mainly involve controlling social activity and mobility between provinces. The latest news has been Asturias’ request to confine a million people to their homes and has already received a response from the Government: not contemplated, at the moment.
The doctor and former director of the WHO, Daniel López Acuña, has gone through the microphones of Cadena SER in ‘Hora 25’ with Pepa Bueno to talk about the situation of the pandemic in Spain.
The epidemiologist has indicated that we have to take home confinement as a “reality”. Thus, he explained that he “hopes” that the Interterritorial Council tomorrow will put on the table the possibility of declaring a confinement in the houses for those who request it.
On the other hand, Acuña wanted to talk about this second wave in which there is an “obvious” lower fatality. This is due, according to him, to the fact that there is a greater detection of cases, a greater capacity for diagnosis, although -he warns- we are returning to the dynamics of March. “When you see the average ages of the people admitted, you see that there are older people and that produces deaths”, The former director of the WHO, López Acuña, has sentenced.
On the request for the confinement of Asturias
I think it is a wise move to have raised that possibility of home confinement and today’s restrictive measures. The evolution of the pandemic requires more drastic measures and home confinement is a reality that we have to assume sooner or later.
The longer we wait, the more time we lose and we have an evolution and an increase in cases, hospitalizations and people in the ICU. The big problem is that if we wait and do not have the adequate effect and we have to take measures like those in Europe, we will have an increase in the number of occupied beds, deaths and cases and this will compromise the capacity for care. The sanitary measure that must be taken is home confinement.
About the second wave
What we have is a situation in which not only the numbers are comparable, neither the cases nor the income. We have more diagnostic capacity. It is not that we are facing a milder disease, we are facing a greater visualization of cases. When one looks at the average ages of the people admitted, one sees that there are older people admitted and that produces deaths. We are returning to the dynamics of March, but fortunately it is still not the same because the lethality is diluted thanks to the greater number of diagnostic tests.
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