Bad Bunny the common factor in the two great COVID-19 spikes in Puerto Rico

Luis Penchi

August 02, 2022 | | Reading time: 4 min

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Bad Bunny not only sang for the public at the Coliseum, but also opened 13 more points on the Island for the public. Photo: Instagram.com/badbunnypr.

The massive concerts of the interpreter Benito Martínez, are the common denominator of two strong waves of community transmission of the COVID-19 on the island and the last shows of the Bad Bunny They threaten to infect half a million more people to raise the level of positivity to 39 percent, a prominent infectologist said today.

Doctor Miguel Colón, a specialist at the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital, estimated that no less than 200,000 people gathered at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico and 13 other locations in the country to directly or remotely observe the concerts and these must have transmitted the BA5 sublineage of the Omicron to another half million people.

“We are going to see the result of this contagion this week, hopefully not, but I think it will be like that,” he told the expert, stating that it was the first concert of Bad Bunny this same year the one that brought the first wave of Ómicron to the island.

“That wave of Ómicron came from the United States with that concert attended by thousands of people from abroad and now I hope that the level of positivity right now at 35 percent reaches 39 percent,” said Colón.

The doctor extolled Martínez’s calling power by recalling that the artist asked his followers to clean the beaches and dozens of them voluntarily responded to his call last weekend.

“Hundreds of people turned out the day after he made the call to clean up our shores. I would like him to ask his followers to get vaccinated against COVID. I would be an extremely happy infectologist if he did this, because the group following him, aged 10 to 30 on the island, is the group with the lowest level of vaccination,” he said.

Doctor Colón confirmed that the new BA 5 strain of the omicron is infecting thousands of people, even patients who had previous sublineages of this COVID variant. Symptoms include a severe headache, extreme tiredness, general body aches, and a dry cough.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a fever, because you hardly get a fever. Your first home test may not be positive. You have to get tested several times, preferably in a laboratory,” Colon said.

The doctor stated that when the patient is young and does not have asthma or any condition that suppresses the immune system, staying home using common painkillers is sufficient. The use of Pavlovic is not recommended, a powerful drug that is better indicated for older patients, but has caused rebound syndrome, as apparently happened with the President Joe Biden of the United States.

The president has tested positive on at least two consecutive days after testing negative for COVID, but has no symptoms at this stage. Colón said that in some cases, rebound patients are worse than previous episodes, but they cannot be given new medications.

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