- Listen to the two interviews in ‘Hora 25’
Listen to Pablo, a teacher in Madrid: “It has been shameful and dangerous” in Play SER
The Community of Madrid has had to suspend serological tests today for teachers in Madrid due to saturation and the queues that have occurred this morning in five centers, but especially in the Virgen de La Paloma Institute. This is where these tests had to be postponed due to the crowds and the huge queues. where it was “impossible” to maintain a safe distance. This is what Pablo, professor, told us in ‘Hour 25’ that He has stood in line for almost four hours waiting to be tested.
“I arrived at one o’clock and I left at a quarter to five,” says Pablo, who says that he found out about the call last night, when his boss informed them on WhatsApp. “It has been shameful and dangerous,” says Pablo. “There is a law that prohibits gatherings of more than ten people and there were thousands there. We were in the sun and people were desperate. ”
“As much as we see the bottle half full, we cannot trust ourselves”
In ‘Hour 25’, we have asked Santiago Moreno, head of the Infectious Diseases Service of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, about the usefulness of these tests. “I understand that the objective of such a screening is to rule out people who are infected for going back to school, but, in that case, the useful test is a PCR, not a serological“. The problem with this type of test is that it only indicates if you have passed the infection. But, if it is negative, “Nobody tells you that the person is not infected, because antibodies take time to be produced”. “Honestly, I don’t know if I would have directly done a PCR”, summarizes Santiago Moreno.
Regarding the epidemiological situation in the country, Moreno acknowledges that “we don’t know what March we are in.” “We have the impression that we are going at a lower speed than in March.” Moreno explains that although the level of positives is now higher, then, only the most serious people were tested. Of course, the doctor insists that “no matter how much we see the bottle half full, we must be tremendously energetic and we cannot trust ourselves”. “If we wait to overflow,” she insists, “that’s when we’ll do it wrong”
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