The immunologist and virologist Margarita del Val, which also coordinates the 150 teams brought together by the CSIC in a large multidisciplinary research platform on the coronavirus pandemic, has explained in Hour 25 that there would probably be prohibit or greatly limit the occupation of nightlife venues indoors, where it would also be necessary to promote air renewal.
To the problem of ventilation in interior rooms, according to Del Val, in relation to COVID-19, is added the fact that they are places where you dance and speak loudly, with the consequent risk that this entails, in the case of a disease that is spread by respiratory route.
“All the effort and sacrifice of the health system cannot be in vain,” said Del Val. “It is perceived that the pandemic has passed, but it has not happened at all. We have to prepare for the next fall-winter wave and not provoke another now. If we do not maintain the rules, the virus shoots up. We are seeing it in Texas, Miami, Iran … Very warm places! If nightlife is exploding here, then it must be strongly regulated “.
The CSIC scientist recalled that “the vast majority of the Spanish population is still susceptible” to contagion by coronavirus, “and we already know what can happen: health chaos and economic chaos.”
Two tips for family reunions
In addition to nightlife venues, Del Val wanted to emphasize that “in meetings with family and friends we have the false feeling that they are not going to do us a chore, a false confidence “, but he recalled that, in reality, “we can infect each other without realizing it.”
To prevent these infections, Margarita del Val proposes two simple tips:
1. Reduce the number of people who meet at the same time: “The ideal is to divide ourselves in two times.”
2. Do not lower your guard with the mask and the distance: “It is better to see each other even with little contact.”
Del Val also appreciated the fact that the number of outbreaks continues to increase: “There is community transmission practically everywhere. We have never reached 0 cases, as in China. In addition, there are many asymptomatic and that, in principle, is good. But they can give us a scare at any time. We’re going to have a lot of serious cases all at once. “
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