05/09/2020 - 21:06
- Clarín.com
- Society
The coronavirus pandemic, which strikes the world and has Argentines in mandatory quarantine, continues to advance. Our country overcame a new barrier, that of the 300 dead , according to data from this Saturday provided by the Ministry of Health of the Nation. 40% of the deceased resided in the province of Buenos Aires . Another 97 lived in the City. Córdoba and Chaco follow him on the list of fatalities with 20 cases each.
In addition, there is an increase in the rate of death . Argentina reached the first 100 deaths in 38 days. It took much less to reach 200, just 14 days. Meanwhile, between the news of the 200 and 300 dead, only 11 passed .
Among the deceased there are more men than women . This trend was evidenced from the radiography of the first 100 deaths. However, the gap narrowed noticeably . At that time, with a hundred fatalities, 74% of the dead were male against 26% female. This was striking because in infections they were even: 52.6%, them; and 47.4%, they. Today, having reached 300 deaths, there are 59.7% of men deceased against 40.3% of women.
The average age of fatal cases rose: it went from 69.3 years with the initial hundred to 73.6 today .
The youngest victim between 200 and 300 dead was number 227, a Chaco man who was 33 years old . A deceased man of 37 years, from the province of Buenos Aires, was also reported as 212. And another from Río Negro, who was 38, was the deceased 214.
However, they were not the youngest if you look at all the dead: a 27-year-old man from the province of Buenos Aires, number 130, had already lost his life as a result of the coronavirus ; and another 31, from the City, 173.
Deaths from Coronavirus in Argentina
Source: Own Data Infographic: Clarín
The appearance of infected in several geriatric porteños -Apart Incas, Belgrano; San Lucas, from Parque Avellaneda; and Beit Sion, from Flores- led to many infected older people and elderly deceased. Among the fatal victims was a 99-year-old woman residing in the City , victim 239. Two other women, 94 (248 and 252) and a man, 93 (258), also from CABA.
In the daily reports released by the Health portfolio, they stopped giving details on risk factors of the deceased or on the way in which they contracted the virus, so that information was only known on some occasions and was based on what the provinces shared. , municipalities or relatives of those affected.
On March 7, with just eight confirmed cases, the first Argentine died. His name was Guillermo Abel Gómez, he was 65 years old. He was at the Argerich Hospital. He had traveled to France and had pre-existing illnesses. Thereafter the dead did not cease.
Today there are 122 fatalities in the province of Buenos Aires , where 2,061 are infected. The City is second in number of people who lost their lives. They are 97 and 1,796 positive.
In Córdoba and Chaco they have already reported 20 deaths. There are also deceased in the provinces of Río Negro (11), Mendoza (9), Neuquén (6), La Rioja (7), Tucumán (3), Santa Fe (2) and Misiones (1).
For the infectologist Lautaro de Vedia, from the Muñiz Hospital, the increase in the death rate must be read in the context that there are more infections. "This is expected and, surely, it will continue to accelerate , more than anything when we have to get out of quarantine," he warns.
"The positive is that hospitals are not collapsed. That means that patients receive good care and do not die from a deficit in the health system, from lack of respirators or from having to endure a long wait, as is happening in other countries. "highlights the former president of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases (SADI).
He says that perhaps there are more risk factors among men, such as COPD, smoking and cardiovascular diseases, and that this explains why they represent a higher percentage of the dead. Meanwhile, he asks to remember the cases of infected and deceased in nursing homes and affirms that "they brought the average age of the fatal victims upwards."
Lastly, he points out that among the younger fatal cases there are usually risk factors, such as kidney or liver failure . "Not always. Nothing is absolute. But when there are deceased in the hospital we ask and, in general, they had some underlying pathology," he adds.
Eduardo López, an infectologist at the Gutiérrez Hospital, highlights that the case fatality is between 5% and 6%, while the mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants is very low: close to 0.5. "It is one of the lowest in Latin America," he insists.
He says that more men are deceased because there are studies that show that women have a better immune response to Covid-19 .
The acceleration in the rate of death is associated with the contagion of larger people. " The situation in nursing homes had to do, the same thing happened in Spain," says López, who agrees that the good news has to do with the fact that, so far, the health system is in a position to respond. " In the city, only 40% of intensive care beds are occupied . Both in the public and private sectors. It is important that this continue," he adds.
DD / AS
