Malaga, like the rest of Spain, Leave the mask on public transport this Wednesday. And she does it with good epidemiological and care data. currently has 42 times fewer hospitalized patients with the virus than at the peak of the pandemic. In addition, the province presents the lowest infection rate of Covid since the statistical records began, in the spring of 2020, the first year of the health crisis. So those fearful in the face of this final stretch of the de-escalation should know that there are elements to justify one more step in the normalization of daily life. In addition, in the province they have already put more than 3.8 million doses of the vaccine against this disease. However, the toilets insist that vulnerable people and those over 60 must continue to wear the mask on public transport and in closed spaces so as not to catch this and other viruses. And those who have symptoms of infectious respiratory pathologies should also use it so as not to transmit them.
After this public health message that professionals insist on, it’s time to take a look at the data. And from these it follows that the pandemic continues to subside. In actuality there are 24 positive admissions in Covid in hospitals in the province. From them, three They are in intensive care. These twenty hospitalized represent the second highest number in Andalusia after Cádiz, which totals 27. But comparing the provincial data, they are 42 times fewer admitted than those who were at the peak of the pandemic in Malaga. At the beginning of February 2021, the maximum number of hospitalized was reached: 1.010of which 114 were in ICU. These numbers then made it necessary to transform spaces that before the pandemic occupied the hospital cafeteriasto convert any place where there was a respirator into an Intensive Care area and to increase against the clock the ICU shirt.
But this situation that put extreme stress on the health system was left behind. In addition, the professionals point out that of those 24 hospitalized today, many are with Covid and not because of Covid. That is to say, that in most cases they remain in a hospital due to other pathologies, not due to coronavirus. You have to go back to mid-August 2020 to find such low numbers of admitted to Malaga. For example, on the 11th of that month of that year, there were 22. But keep in mind that this low number was product of confinementthe only measure at that time to stop the spread of the pathogen since there was still no vaccine.
Also if the figures for admissions in the ICU are compared, these are 38 times less than at the beginning of February 2021, when the anticovid vaccination had already been a month old, but the group immunity necessary to stop the spread of a virus was still a long way off.
But the pandemic has so far left Malaga 2,854 deaths with the virus, 319,214 infected, 16,929 hospitalized, 1,238 of these admitted to the ICU y 312,947 healed.
The bowl current number of positives with Covid in the province is 28.8 older than 60 years or more. Something more than the average for the autonomous community -which stands at 24.8- and the fourth highest in Andalusia. It is the lowest indicator since the statistical records of the Covid began. But it must be borne in mind that the data is not comparable because at the height of the pandemic more tests were carried out to diagnose the coronavirus and at all ages. Now fewer tests and PCR are carried out and they are mainly focused on people aged 60 or over (Since March 2022, the tests began to be carried out from this age). Therefore, if the health system does fewer diagnostic tests and even many infected people do not even take the test or do not report their infection, it is also logical that the rate will drop. But through the indirect route of the hospitalized data, it is clear that The pandemic has been easing the pressure for several months now. In addition, it is confirmed by the health workers and the normality of daily life is observed in practice. Except that the mask will continue to be mandatory in health centers, social health centers and pharmacies, among others.
If Malaga, Andalusia and Spain enjoy a better epidemiological situation is a consequence of the herd immunity; acquired by vaccination and overcoming Covid by those who were infected. Since December 27, 2020, when the vaccine began to be applied, 3,807,906 anticovid doses have been given in the province, 1,419,923 people have the complete regimen and 258,916 have received the fourth dose. Nevertheless, the province has the lowest vaccination level in the autonomous community in this memory prick (fourth dose). In Malaga the 48,5% of the people who could receive it. It is the lowest percentage in Andalusia. At the other extreme is Córdoba, with the 63,8% of vaccinated with the fourth dose.
