Santiago Olszevicki is a biochemist from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and data analyst who, since the beginning of the pandemic, has been offering relevant information about the evolution of Covid-19 in Argentina and the world.
In his last Twitter post before the end of the year, he published three tables that show the relationship between the steep rise in cases in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, hand in hand with the Delta and Ómicron variants, and the evolution of hospitalizations in intensive therapy and patients who are forced to use a ventilator. For analysis, compare the current numbers with those shown by the peak of the previous coronavirus wave.
“The CABA statistics mark many cases, so many that the previous wave seems almost a plateau – he points out Olszevicki-. But the data that matters post-vaccination are other: the intensive care beds and the patients with a respirator in them are very far from the values we saw before. “
Another table released by the former dean of Exact Sciences, Jorge Aliaga, allows us to incorporate another of the currently relevant data, the deaths that occurred, into the comparison, which allows us to complete the panorama.
The impact of vaccines
As the charts above make clear, there is a big difference between the previous waves and the current one. For this reason, the Ministry of Health changed the parameters to define the sanitary measures from those referring to the number of infections to the indicators of the situation of the Health System.
The big difference is the massive application of vaccines, which in Argentina reached 85.3% of the population with at least one dose, 73% with two and 10.7% with the reinforcement of a third, numbers that place the country among the best immunized in the world.
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