Pablo Sigal
07/10/2020 - 19:54
Clarín.com
Society
The only way that a ship does not sink when water enters a crevice is to
seal the crevice
.
If you try to remove the water with a bucket, sooner rather than later the overwhelming water volume will take over the entire boat and there will be a wreck.
Water is the coronavirus cases.
The bucket was longer than strict quarantine.
The unsealed crack, the
lack of testing.
The number of Covid infections grew
steadily
in Argentina over seven months.
The vast majority of countries have already passed the peak and their records are down, except for some European outbreaks.
This has meant that our country
does not stop climbing the world rankings
and now, after leaving Spain and Peru on the way, it is on the edge of the top 5.
Spain was one of the worst images of this pandemic, not so much because of the number of infections it had in the European winter, but because of the
number of deaths
.
When they realized that the virus was circulating there, the asymptomatic had already wreaked havoc and the result was visible:
695 deaths per million inhabitants
, the second highest rate in the world.
The first is in Peru, whose index is 995. In Argentina,
the fatality rate grew more than expected
and today stands at 490.
Argentina and Colombia, for their part, have had a similar history in this pandemic.
In the beginning, between March and April, they held
almost twin case and death curves
.
Then, when the quarantine was still effective in our country, Colombia climbed faster in its records.
But now both countries will meet again.
Colombia, fifth in the world ranking but
on the downward path,
past its peak.
Argentina, still on the slope of the ascent.
And with one caveat;
Due to the number of inhabitants that one territory has and another, the cases per million
are already more in Argentina
.
Strictly speaking, of the top 20 positions in the ranking, only the United States, Brazil, Peru and Chile have more cases per million than our country.
Above Colombia, in absolute figures, Russia, Brazil, India and the United States are in order towards the top of the table.
Of all these countries, including Colombia, Argentina has had the
most cases and deaths per million in recent days
.
The high local records are now composed of an increasingly strong incidence from the Interior, as the AMBA has passed the peak.
Another element that has contributed to the current state of affairs was the
"relaxation" of the Interior
.
It happened while life in a large part of the provinces (except Chaco) seemed like an oasis compared to the suffering of the metropolitan area, where all eyes were on.
It was then that the drip infections began.
The exponential logic of the pandemic turned
that trickle into a cataract
.
Now it is too late to stop it.
As
Clarín
reported
, Argentina did half of the tests that it would have needed to, at least, play as equals against Covid and face an increase in cases without a ceiling, as most European countries and several managed to do. from America and Asia.
The Argentine positivity rate is also
the highest in the world
, a product of the same policy: scarce and focused swabs, which allow
the majority of asymptomatic patients
to escape
.
At its worst, in mid-April, Italy recorded just over 6,500 cases a day.
Spain, just over 9,000.
The news that came from Europe was the "Monday newspaper" for Argentina: the advantage of
knowing those experiences so as not to repeat them
.
However, our country has bet, above all, on quarantine (its peak and decline) and expanding the capacity of intensive care beds, which prevented hospital collapse.
Tests per million are a fifth of those in Italy and a sixth of those in Spain.
Peru has tested three times more than Argentina and Colombia, twice.
At the beginning of the southern autumn, when the local figures were child's play compared to the current ones, the Government decided to close everything.
On April 15 there were 2,443 infected and 105 dead
throughout the country.
By then the classes and shops had stopped working for almost a month.
What followed were 11 quarantine renewals, 9 of them with presidential press conferences.
Later, the population learned that the deaths were at least
20 percent more than those reported
and it was time for the recorded announcements, spread through social networks.
The Argentine health reality had ceased to be as good as it had been presented.
$
Look also
Coronavirus Vaccine: Who Will Take Charge If It Causes Adverse Effects In Patients?
Tension between the Province and the City due to the under-registration of deaths from coronavirus