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Chain of infections in a large family

2020-10-25T03:21:31.521Z


Young Paz caught the coronavirus on vacation in her town and a few days later her four brothers, her father and her paternal grandparents, as well as two friends, tested positive


On vacation in the town he relaxed, like a good part of the population in Spain.

At 18 years old and wanting to squeeze life out, Paz was hurrying the last days of summer before returning to Valencia.

She was confident, calm, with lots of fresh air, the river, the pool, the pandemic was there but she hadn't seen it or suffered it up close.

She shared glasses, cutlery, drinks, confidences with her friends and cousins.

In late August, he began to notice that he was losing some of his taste and smell, but he didn't feel particularly bad either.

He went on with his normal life for a bit, until he began to ask and really care about a problem that he hadn't given much importance to.

Today he regrets and that is why he wants to share his experience with the coronavirus.

First she was infected with two friends from the town, and then her four brothers, her father and her paternal grandparents tested positive.

Do not lower your guard even if life invites you to do so.

“The truth is that I was not very well informed.

Now I realize how unconscious I was.

Bad for me.

I asked my best friends on my Instagram if they had lost their smell and taste and they immediately replied that they were symptoms of covid-19.

A friend explained to me that the same thing had happened to her father and he had had the disease [it became very serious in the first wave of the pandemic] ”, says the young woman, a university student of Social Education and Primary Teaching.

Already settled in Valencia and without leaving home, he repeatedly called his health center although it took a few days until they finally picked up the phone.

“I went to the health center and they did the PCR and I actually tested positive, and soon Raquel, from the Ministry [of Health] called me to ask me for all the information and contacts of all the people I had been with since least two days before you have symptoms.

If I don't lose my sense of smell and taste, I don't get tested and we are still infecting out there, "he says.

Raquel is the tracker who quickly contacted Paz's environment.

"He was very efficient and then he called me almost every day and also asked about my mother, the only one who did not get infected," says Paz.

His father continues the story, also by phone, of the chain of family infections and how they proceeded: "They called us and told us to go in the morning to do the PCR and that we all had to be homebound until the results were obtained.

It was relatively quick and we all came out positive except my wife.

We think that maybe he already had antibodies because he had previously passed it asymptomatically ”.

"I had several tests done and they all came back negative," says the woman at home, surrounded by her husband and five children, aged between 10 and 23, before the photo shoot.

The whole family is now perfectly fine, leading a normal life, going to school, university and work.

Most have passed the virus asymptomatically or with some mild symptoms, such as loss of appetite, as well as smell and taste for Paz.

The most worrying thing has been the contagion from paternal grandparents, after a visit when they still did not know anything.

“My mother recovered perfectly, my father already had other pathologies and was admitted.

He has already left and, as far as possible, he is more recovered ”, says the father.

Paz's vitalist tone is only altered when she talks about her grandfather: "He has recovered, thank God, I was much more scared by my grandparents than by all of us, of course."

The cousins, however, with whom they shared so much in the summer, tested negative, as did the maternal branch of the family.

The mother had to take action within her own home.

“We had to set shifts, work and school hours at home.

We are quite organized and we get along quite well.

We also took the opportunity to watch television series such as

La casa de papel

or the documentary

The last dance

about Michael Jordan, and to do gymnastics, ”says the father.

"Among my family there have been no reproaches for the contagion," says Paz.

“My uncles understood it very well, it can happen to anyone, we don't know where the origin was in the town, my friends from there also took it.

A friend of my brother, aged 16, said that he preferred not to give his information because he did not want to stay at home waiting for the result.

Luckily, at least we didn't spread the virus outside the family! "He adds.

Paz has not hidden that the coronavirus has passed, but there are many reluctant and fearful people, or neighbors who can stigmatize the family, despite the immunity now acquired and the fact that they cannot transmit the virus for weeks.

For all this, his father and his two older sisters are more reserved.

The whole family wants to acknowledge the work of the trackers and the medical treatment received.

“They have called us regularly every two or three days;

the outpatient doctor was a very attentive person;

they asked us pointed questions and the trackers were dumping all the data into the system while we were telling them.

We have been fortunate not to have any serious problem and not to have required emergencies, "he says. However, there were delays in the care at the center for grandfather that could worsen his health, he adds. Then, in the emergency room of a hospital in Valencia, the father noticed a lack of personnel and an excessively rigid information protocol, which caused that from eight thirty in the morning until nine at night no one informed him of his father's condition.

Information about the coronavirus

- Here you can follow the last hour on the evolution of the pandemic

- This is how the coronavirus curve evolves in the world

- Download the tracking application for Spain

- Search engine: The new normal by municipalities

- Guide to action against the disease

Source: elparis

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