Determined to allay the fears of the population and the criticism they received for the handling of the covid-19 pandemic, the federal health authorities relaxed the measures to prevent contagion and emphasize the drop in hospital occupancy due to this disease. However, some specialists believe that the infections – such as the recent one from President López Obrador – continue and, after the terrible consequences of the pandemic, the government must continue the campaign to educate the population and learn to live with the disease.
MEXICO CITY (Process).– The so-called “Stay at home” from three years ago, when the covid-19 pandemic reached Mexico and put it facing death, today it is only a sad memory that most of the people want to erase while going to the movies or a concert without a mask, lining up at a restaurant to eat without restrictions and no longer worrying about whether there are beds available in hospitals, special medicine in pharmacies, oxygen tanks or any type of vaccine to protect yourself.
The relaxation of the sanitary measures against SARS-CoV-2 is not only seen among ordinary people, but also among the federal government itself and the health authorities, who seem to have forgotten the danger after, through stumbling blocks and errors, they attended the most serious health emergency in recent history in the country, which left 7.45 million infections and 333,876 confirmed official deaths, without taking excess mortality into account.
However, a clear sign that the infections continue in the sixth wave of the disease is that of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself, who on Sunday the 23rd had a “transient fainting” while he was in Mérida, Yucatán, which forced him to suspend your work tour. A few hours later, he reported on his social networks that, for the third time, he had been caught by the virus, at 69 years of age and with a history of heart disease and high blood pressure.
Specialists agree that, even if the pandemic is no longer so serious, prevention and vaccination campaigns must continue and prepare the health system for possible outbreaks or new viruses.
“Mild clinical picture”
On Tuesday 25, at the conference in the National Palace, the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, reported that, according to the behavior of the virus over three years, “the clinical picture of the current conditions is mild, with symptoms of inflammation of the respiratory tract tall; that is to say, of the respiratory tract of the nose, of the throat and, of course, with fever and fatigue”. That, he said, was the symptomatology that López Obrador had, who improved “with taking paracetamol, fluids and rest.”
Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, explained that the covid-19 pandemic “is in good decline”, because, after an eight-week plateau of downward infections, it entered a more rapid reduction. Until that day, hospital occupancy for respiratory illness was 3% of general beds and 1% of beds for “critically ill” people; that is, with intubation.
And he added: “It is very likely that these numbers, 3% and 1%, or similar figures, are already the general behavior of hospital occupancy for acute respiratory disease. It does not necessarily represent covid.” And he highlighted that the mortality indicator in the last two weeks registers “less than two digits” on a daily average.
The undersecretary added that the expectation of the SAR-CoV-2 infection is that “it will remain forever in humanity, as a respiratory disease.” Regarding vaccination coverage on a national scale, he said that 84% was reached in general, of which 91% are people aged 18 and over; 64% are from 12 to 17 years old and 61% from 5 to 11 years old.
In Mexico City, according to figures from the Ministry of Health (Sedesa), the pandemic is also declining, although the authorities no longer give lectures on the subject, they only issue weekly reports. In the most recent report (on April 24) it was recorded that as of April 16, 100 people were hospitalized, of which 69 occupied general care beds and 31 with artificial ventilation.
And the accumulated vaccination marks that eight million 659 thousand 387 people had their first dose (100.7%), eight million 134 thousand 579, the second (94.6%); and only 7,667,022 (89.2%) received the first booster with biologics from Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, and Sputnik.
As of December 21, 2022, in Mexico City, the Abdala vaccine, manufactured in Cuba, began to be applied to those over 18 years of age, but without approval from the World Health Organization (WHO). Until April 24, 257,863 doses had been applied.
Fragment of the report published in the 2426 edition of the magazine Processwhose digital edition can be purchased at this link.
2023-04-30 18:00:39
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