The professor of the Tec de Monterrey School of Government, Carlos Elizondo, considered that there are three elements of the COVID-19 pandemic that were not well managed by the current Government.
“In the case of the pandemic, it is clearly a surprise event, but it shows how a government reacts to the surprise, it is not the president’s fault, the president says that it fell like a glove, that is very strange, there is no no ruler, that I know, who has said something similar, “he said in an interview for La Silla Roja.
He indicated that the first element of the pandemic that was not well controlled was the downplaying of the pandemic.
“The reaction to the pandemic had three interesting elements and not well managed: the first was denial, that is not whether the health system worked or did not work, the president did not think this was important, he said it several times, he said it López-Gatell, the subject of the mask, this whole story ”, he detailed in the talk with Enrique Quintana, Víctor Piz and Leonardo Kourchenko.
The second element was that the strategy to combat the coronavirus should focus on the availability of beds and not on offering the best possible care to the sick.
“When they realized that this was serious, they made a politically very intelligent decision that was called having enough beds, that people do not die in parking lots, except in the critical part of December, January of this year, it worked quite well, People died in their homes, as they reached the beds because the death rate of patients admitted to the IMSS changes, it is very high, more than 50 percent of those who entered died but it was not good in terms of the welfare of the patients; It was not the 65 deaths from a very catastrophic scenario, López-Gatell told us, but we are already over 220 thousand, it has happened to many countries, it is a complicated pandemic, but the reflections were concentrated on providing beds not on giving the best possible assistance, in buying fans, even if there was not the expertise to handle them and the result is that we are one of the three countries with the most deaths and the highest excess of deaths in the world ”, explained the writer.
While the third point is that very few Mexicans have received the coronavirus vaccine.
“Finally, the vaccine, a country that treated the pandemic very badly was the United States, but President Trump understood very quickly the importance of vaccination and if today we have three effective vaccines it is because the United States ordered them to be made, paid for them, he developed, all and that allowed Biden to inherit a system that was not right in the part of his vaccination run, but had the vaccines, “he added.
“President López was slow to realize the importance of the vaccine, it is seen that López-Gatell was not very convinced of the importance of vaccines, Marcelo Ebrard had to enter to pressure to buy them, it is not optimal for a chancellor to buy them Because he is not an expert on the subject, he does not have the infrastructure, they were bought quite well, it seemed that they were not bad but AstraZeneca’s failed because they did not take care of what Trump took care of, which is not enough to say ‘I’m going to bring the vaccine’, yes Not that I have to have each of the supplies that make it possible for these vaccines to be packaged, distributed, that there are syringes, and the major commitment made by this Government to bring AstraZeneca vaccines, produced in Argentina, but packaged in Mexico, Well, so far not a single one of these vaccines has been injected, ”he indicated.
“Mexico is among the countries that have vaccinated a lower percentage of its population, it is not what they gave us that they were going to achieve for the month of May, not even remotely. It was a country that knew how to vaccinate very well and they had to invent everything in a centralized system, which generates enormous uncertainty because you do not know when it will touch you, when it will touch you, if the second dose is going to arrive and it talks about the risk of that someone has all the power, that there is no scientific committee that decides the priority of vaccination, I do not know, in any country in the world, that someone has decided to first vaccinate the teachers of an entity, in this case Campeche, that end the vaccination of public and private doctors, orderlies and nurses. That seems tragic to me ”.
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