07/30/2020 - 9:28
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, responded this Thursday to the criticism of the former candidate for vice president of Together for Change, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, and assured that the country's economy "falls due to the pandemic, not due to quarantine."
"Pichetto does not understand anything about sanitation; to dedicate himself to the legal profession. He admires Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, asks that the virus do what it has to do and kill those it has to kill but it does not affect the economy It is ignorance, because the economy falls due to the pandemic, not due to quarantine. Brazil and the United States fall more than Argentina, "said Gollán.
A few hours earlier, Pichetto had asked "to start the wheel of the economy" and defined Gollán as "the death doctor who announces the collapse".
In dialogue with Radio Continental , the provincial official defended the official strategy to contain the coronavirus pandemic and stated that "if we had the same number of beds as when it all started, we would already be long overcrowded ."
"Pichetto does not even know the effort we made. The quarantine continues and does not end until we all return to pre-crisis mobility. The world lacks a lot for that. What we do is modulate it to avoid deaths, because the economy falls The same. His comment is a supine ignorance, but it doesn't surprise me, "he said.
Regarding the continuity of the isolation from next week, Gollán avoided giving details and assured that "between today and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday) decisions will be made."
More definitions
The evolution of the pandemic: "The permanent concern is to correlate cases with the speed of occupation of intensive care beds. The death toll is extremely hard, but it must also be seen that the number of people who have died of acute respiratory causes it is much less than in other years, because we do not have influenza, for example. Due to the quarantine, the influenza virus is practically not circulating. The central point of all the effort is to prevent, but that nobody lacks the resource of a therapy bed , because there the number of deceased is shot ".
The health system: "I do not use the word collapse; I use the word saturation. There is already a saturation in the private sector , mainly in the city. In the public sector, both in the city and in the province, we are a little calmer , but not enough to throw butter on the ceiling. We can't relax. "
Compliance with quarantine. "There is a quarantine base that is followed. There is 40 percent of society that does not circulate because there are no classes, there are no bowling alleys, transportation is controlled, the public administration works at 30 percent ... that gives us a base.In the tightening of July, the first 10 days we noticed a decrease of 15 percent more on that 40, and the second week 7 percent.
Many of us would have liked it to be more forceful , but it marked a very clear inflection of the curve that slowed the growth rate. Our fear is that it will not accelerate too much now. If there is a serious danger of saturation in the AMBA, it will have to be resolved in advance. "
The return to football: "It is not a decision that can be made in the Province. It is national, because it affects multiple jurisdictions. There are conversations and I think that at some point, not so far, a protocol will be analyzed under very strict conditions But they are just talking. "
Technopolis: "Some think that we have to isolate people in a dreary, boring place. For us, it is good for isolated people to have a good time from a psychological and social point of view. There are some who resent that. It gives us joy. And if they were physically ill they would be in a hospital. "
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