04/22/2020 - 19:57
- Clarín.com
- Society
Some 35 older adults and four employees of the Beit Sión home, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores, were referred to different health centers this week after having tested positive for the coronavirus test, although many of them had no symptoms of the disease and remained "stable".
Ricardo Barmat, medical director of the home, confirmed to Clarin that after having done about 170 tests, they determined that the number of infected reaches 39, with 35% asymptomatic.
Barmat stressed that if they had not acted prematurely "the geriatric environment would be dead" and added "that the raw data" will be received within 15 days.
On April 7, a male resident of the home died of coronavirus after being hospitalized since March 16 , four days before the national government ordered compulsory social isolation.
As a result of this case, Baredes explained that "the alarm went off to carry out the protocol" and that they contacted the Buenosairean government so that all residents and employees of the home were swabbed, but "they said that they had to have a fever "to have the test done.
Baredes noted that from his institution "they applied a whole protocol that caused people to not have fever at home " that allowed the 35 older adults to be hospitalized each "with their social work" of which only four of them had symptoms .
Baredes added that the older adults hospitalized are "stable" and "none with a respirator", while four employees who tested positive are hospitalized and a fifth case is close to being discharged.
