Dr. Fernando Giménez reported that due to the increase in consultations for symptoms of Covid-19, the number of professionals attending the respiratory post should have been increased. “We passed from 40 to 200 people a day who attend the post officewith a positivity level of 60%,” he confirmed.
who is swabbed
Currently, the effector of the provincial capital swab only to people over the age of 50, with risk factors and healthcare personnel. “The rest are diagnosed on the basis of clinical and epidemiological criteria, as happened other times during the pandemic. If a patient has all the clinical characteristics of the virus and has had contact with a positive, he is considered to have coronavirus”, clarified the chief of Hospital Guard.
In this regard, reported that A period of five days of isolation is recommended, starting from the onset of symptoms: “Generally, people consult between 24 and 48 hours from the onset of symptoms and, once discharged, we advise not to go to closed or crowded places and remember that close contacts who do not show symptoms must not isolate themselves”.
Mild or moderate symptoms
On the other hand, the head of the guard emphasized this 80% of cases have mild or moderate symptoms, whose symptoms “are characterized by rhinitis, often attributed to continuous use of air conditioning or sudden changes in temperature, sore throat, fever lasting more than 48 hours, deterioration and loss of smell”. Giménez indicated that the vast majority of infected people usually recover in two days and are patients who have two, three and even five doses of the vaccine.
When asked about the volume of hospitalizations, the head of the Guard said The Morning of the Network (88.7 The PaUNO Network): “Some patients came in last week and they will have been 15 people, whose moderate symptoms required supplemental oxygen with mask or nose mask. We haven’t had any patients go on a ventilator. You definitely feel a big difference considering the previous waves of Covid.”
Vaccination against Covid-19 in Entre Ríos
The vaccination campaign led by the Ministry of Health of Entre Ríos continues in the province. “Currently the most widespread vaccine is Moderna, which is one of the ones that generates the most antibodies in the system“, explained Giménez, “the more symptoms the person develops after the inoculation, the more antibodies he produces”. arm that received the vaccine “We have no epidemiological reports of serious reactions for this”, clarified the head of the Guard.
Finally, the professional reflected on the importance of vaccines and their influence on the severity of cases: “We can see how this production of patients and diseases in many people has been mitigated. The vaccine does not prevent people from being infected, but that the the complications decrease. As the virus advances, science and technology advance. We are in a different situation compared to what was the beginning of the pandemic, which was catastrophic”.
