Javier Firpo
05/23/2021 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/23/2021 6:01 AM
The Pan American Health Organization says that
those under 50 are increasingly a threat of contagion and death
from coronavirus.
"Between December 2020 and March 2021, mortality rates among those under 39 years of age doubled in Brazil and quadrupled for people between 40 and 50 years old," PAHO pointed out a few weeks ago.
The second wave that hits Argentina seems to broaden the age range and shake those under 50 years of age, as happened in Brazil, where the Manaus variant, detected at the end of last year, is pointed out as
responsible for the demographic change
.
"We are in the presence of more aggressive and infectious strains, but there is also a lack of people's awareness, a
certain indolence and ignorance, in addition to a notorious lack of vaccines,
" says Eleonora Cunto, head of intensive care at Hospital Muñiz.
Pirovano Hospital pulmonologist, Martín Masdeu assures that "the Manaus and South African variants
are more virulent, much more transmissible and with pulmonary pathologies
in an age group much younger than what was seen last year. Today we are witnesses of
the hospitalization. of people without comorbidities
, who are not older adults, who suffer from bilateral pneumonia, which puts their lives at risk. You could estimate that in the last month, between 60 and 70 percent of hospitalized people are people between 30 and 50 years ".
Invincible on the court
As the pulmonologist Masdeu said, in the last month, in our country, there were
numerous deaths of young people
, between 20 and 50 years old, without prevalent diseases.
Such is the case of Joel Rutigliano, 35, a rugby player for the Berisso Rugby Club, who died on April 26, after nineteen days at the Rossi Hospital in La Plata.
Joel Rutigliano, who died last April 26.
To his right, his great friend, Nicolás Santilli.
"El Gordo
left
unexpectedly and
left an empty space impossible to fill
. A brother left me", describes Nicolás Santilli (28) with pain, a teammate inside and a friend off the field.
Still devastated by "the unexpected departure", Santilli cannot believe that Joel is dead.
"
A kid who played rugby since he was eight years old
, but also played tennis twice a week, a super active kid ... He was a tough guy to play, vehemently, he worked with his head if necessary. Off the field he was a bread of God, a warm kid, entrador, with a capacity to fall well he had not seen anyone. And that kind of people who never would you generate concern, even feeling bad. And the fat
is the bank until end without a complaint
I'm sure I can imagine. "
A bulldozer.
Joel, in the middle, with the oval, in hand-to-hand action playing for his beloved club, Berisso Rugby Club.
Gastón Fernández, who was Rutigliano's captain at the Berisso Rugby Club, does not enter into his head that "Joel is no longer with us, knowing that
He was an impassable hooker and
he seemed like an invincible kid on the court
... His death was a cold bucket, because we knew that Covid was passing him relatively well, he was stable,
until an in-hospital virus generated multi-organ failure
and he left ... A great guy left, a group maker. "
Nicolás and Gastón feel an inexplicable orphanhood.
"
El Gordo had promised us a trip to the Esteros del Iberá
, with his new truck, which he had bought recently and was super excited waiting for the restrictions to be loosened. What madness, what a feeling of uncertainty, but we have to look forward, Joel would
not have wanted us to be like this
,
mired in sadness
; surely he must be smiling wherever he is. "
Losing two sisters
Freddy Güida apologizes over and over again.
It is difficult for him to keep the thread of the conversation without breaking.
In a week, the 26-year-old young man from Entre Ríos lost his two sisters, Aldana (21) and Marina (29) -who were studying Biology- which shocked the city of Concordia.
"What happened to the whole family is tremendous, we all fell infected, crazy. And
my mother has just been discharged from the same hospital where her daughters died.
Terrifying."
Freddy Güida (26) with his sisters Aldana (21, left) and Marina (29), who died in Entre Rios, by Covid, in the span of a week.
Content, from an internal procession, Freddy says that he is like a "zombie walking down the street in a state of torpor, lost and without understanding what is happening." He assures that the fear has passed, "today I have a fight, I feel that this damn virus took almost everything out of me, so until today I did not sit down to think about whether I am running any health risk,
I just sat down to cry my sisters,
who I love so much and couldn't even fire them. "
More of Aldana's buddy, with whom he had more personal dialogues, Freddy recalls that "when the ambulance took Aldana away we understood that she would be back after a while, medicated, I don't know, we never assumed that that night when she walked through my door House
would be the last time we would see it
. And much less that it would decompensate and the next day they would tube it. "
When Marina was admitted a few days later, her sister had already died and that would have "mentally wiped him out."
Aldana (21) and Marina (29), sisters and close friends.
"It was sudden and they had no pre-existing diseases," said his father, José.
Unlike Aldana, Marina answered messages from her phone.
He even brought peace to his father José: "I'm fine, don't worry."
Also with his brother Freddy he maintained a round trip that, with the days, began to be more sporadic because his health was failing.
"I think
Aldana's death had an emotional impact on Marina
, who was very, very scared.
I wrote to him and he no longer responded, I asked him please not to leave me alone and I know he read it, "he breaks down in tears.
Aldana, the youngest, lived with her boyfriend, while Marina, with two children, was separated and lived with her parents and her 90-year-old grandmother, whom she cared for. "
None of them had pre-existing diseases, I don't understand what happened to them
, I don't know if they were so serious or the hospital (Concepción Masvernat de Concordia) was not prepared. But Aldana was hospitalized on April 30, she died on May 3 and I couldn't do it. Say goodbye. And we hospitalized Marina on Friday the 7th and she died four days later due to bilateral pneumonia. I went to therapy, saw her intubated,
I approached her and told her that we were going to take care of her children
", recalls dejected José Güida (59), the father of the girls.
Don José is heard in a hurry, who despite his age continues to work as a lifeguard.
"I'm taking care of everything, my sister-in-law, my wife and my grandchildren Andrés (11) and Mía (6), who asks me about his mother all the time ... But I also have to take care of myself, what does a week that I neither eat nor sleep. Thank God, Mariela my wife is back home. I am very religious, but
I do not understand how God was so cruel
", downloads José, who believes that he is immersed" in a horror movie " .
The smile that faded
The smile
is the first thing that Belén (19) comes to mind to think of her sister Sol Casella.
And she says "the smile" with the greatest sadness in the world
, since Sol died on Friday, May 14, at the age of 23, at the Sagrado Corazón clinic, causing consternation among the medical staff who treated her.
"One of the clinicians who was always by Sol's side began to cry inconsolably and we received a message on behalf of the medical staff, who
could not explain or understand what had happened,
" shares Belén, Sol's sister, at 1 am dawn of this Tuesday.
Sol's smile, all an imprint on the young journalist who died at 23 years of age.
Between awake and insomniac, Belén says that "
everything happened very quickly, withering, for someone super healthy
like Sol, who on April 18 tested positive and on April 22 she was already admitted to a normal ward. But evidently they could not oxygenate her lungs and on May 1 she was transferred to intensive care. She did not respond to the medication and a doctor noticed that Sol was very downcast, convinced that she would not get out of that situation, allowed my mother to see her, intubated, which was a shock ".
Sol was studying journalism at the University of Lomas de Zamora, he lacked four subjects to be received and he collaborated with current news in the AUNO Agency and in the Politica del Sur portal.
"She wrote since she was a girl, she wrote
affectionate letters to my mother, my sister and me, with very deep descriptions
. Her wrist loosened and she began to write everything from political issues, to feminism issues to coronavirus issues. He was happy with his craft. "
Sol with his mother Claudia.
"The doctors let my mother enter therapy because they saw that she was falling apart," said Belén, her sister.
It is difficult for Bethlehem to speak in the past tense, who notices it but does not correct it. "
This Sunday she would be 24 years old.
I can't believe she's not here with us, it can't be that an incredible woman like her has disappeared from us." Beloved in the faculty, in the Inmaculada Concepción school by teachers and former classmates, at work and much loved by Lautaro, his love for eight years, "who today is as destroyed as we are."
In all three cases, friends and family speak of "something unthinkable due to age", "incomprehensible for not having pre-existing pathologies" and "the suddenness of the virus attack".
As the pulmonologists Cunto and Masdeu mention, "we are in the presence of
more harmful variants, which do not distinguish ages
".
And a warning from Dr. Cunto, del Muñiz: "Do not let the disease progress to have medical checks, not more than seven days pass ...
We are noticing that many patients are already seriously ill
."
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