Coronavirus in Argentina: 10 thousand deaths in ten codes and the rule that doubles the lethality

Pablo Sigal

07/09/2020 - 20:11

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With the official part of this Monday, Argentina became part of the small group of nations that have

from coronavirus.

In total there are

.

With a total of 10,129 accumulated deaths, Argentina has already surpassed Germany, Canada and Belgium in the ranking.

In addition, it

, which has 11,652 deaths and now its curve adds less because it has already exceeded the peak.

Next, an X-ray of

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It took

, since March 3, when the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the country.

It gives an average of 52 deaths per day and more than two per hour so far in the pandemic.

However, if you take just the average number of deaths from the last month, it was

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Of the total deaths, there were

.

Among them, 14 boys under 10, and 18 between 11 and 20 years.

At this point in the pandemic, looking at the figures, a mathematical conclusion can be drawn:

.

Those who died between the ages of 60 and 70 are twice those who died between the ages of 50 and 60. These, in turn, double those who died between the ages of 40 and 50.

in a descending ladder .

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The doubling time of the total deaths was lengthening: to go from 5,000 to 10,000 deaths,

.

This is one more week than it had taken to go from 2,500 to 5,000: 20 days.

Previously, just 12 days had passed from 1,750 deaths to 2,500.

This indicates that the

of the pandemic is slowing down.

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The fatality rate has

.

At its best, it reached 1.87 percent.

It should be clarified that this figure was at the beginning of August because deaths were lacking in the database, or at least they had not been reported.

The current percentage is 2.06, which places Argentina among the countries with

.

The global average is

Coronavirus in Argentina

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The

occurred in the province of Buenos Aires, 24 percent in the city and 16 percent in the Interior.

When analyzing the fatality rate by district,

the country are Chaco, with 3.75 percent;

La Rioja, with 3.09;

Missions, with 2.98;

Río Negro, with 2.96;

Jujuy, with 2.47;

and the city of Buenos Aires, with 2.31.

All these provinces

national

for mortality.

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It is not by chance that the province of Buenos Aires has a fatality rate of 2.05 percent.

That is,

with the one exhibited by the country.

The largest population in the national territory is the one that

both in the death rate and in the curve of the pandemic.

For this reason, when the Conurbano exceeds its peak, it will be Argentina that will have left it behind.

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The rest of the provinces are below the country average.

To highlight, San Luis and Catamarca are

, with 247 infections and 86, respectively.

Two other provinces with good performance are Formosa, with a single death and 90 infections;

and San Juan, also with one death and 377 cases.

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Three of the provinces most affected in recent weeks by the Covid outbreaks have low fatality rates

: Córdoba marks 1.43;

Mendoza, 1.48 and Santa Fe, 1.01.

This may change towards the end of September, since the death curve always grows

the case curve.

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One of the keys to low mortality in the country has to do with the response capacity of hospitals.

After more than six months of the pandemic, the occupancy of intensive care beds (ICU)

and at the country level it remained close to 60 percent.

Of the total number of infected, only 1.26 percent required a UTI and only

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Another reason for low mortality is the low exposure that, except for specific cases in some nursing homes, older adults had to the virus:

That is, the critical age in which Covid attacks and, in most cases, does not forgive.

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