09/11/2021 4:47 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 9/11/2021 4:47 PM
One day from PASO and after a relationship that mutated from being key allies to sustain the toughest measures during the quarantine due to the coronavirus to criticism for the birthday celebration of the first lady Fabiola Yañez, President Alberto Fernández received this noon to the group of infectologists who have advised him since the beginning of the pandemic.
The president and the specialists shared a lunch in which the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and the Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, were also present.
According to official sources, the infectologists who had lunch outdoors in Olivos with the President and his closest officials were
Pedro Cahn
,
Eduardo López
, María Marta Contrini, Carlota Russ, Angela Gentile, Mirta Roses, Luis Cámera, Javier Farina, Pablo Bonvehí , Gonzalo Camargo, Pascual Valdez and Gustavo Lopardo.
No photos of the meeting were released
.
The meeting, which the Government defined as the possibility of thanking specialists for their help during the pandemic, is an attempt by the President to
get closer to those who were his allies
throughout 2020.
Pedro Cahn, behind Alberto Fernández and Kicillof during an announcement in the middle of the pandemic.
It is that Fernández maintained permanent contact with the infectologists and they were his source of consultation prior to each announcement of continuity of the quarantine, which began in March of last year.
The most significant case of the distancing between the President and the infectologists is that of Pedro Cahn, who participated in more than one announcement by the president and was constantly mentioned by him, but had no choice but to go out to the crossroads after the disputed birthday celebration by Fabiola Yañez at the Olivos residence in times of restrictions.
"I spent several months without seeing my grandchildren and my children and we have all suffered.
My friends have died and I have not been able to fire them
. It is wrong not to comply with the protocol, whoever it is," Cahn questioned during an interview with
CNN radio
.
And he added that "who should reflect is the one who has not done things properly", referring to the President.
The infectologist Eduardo López.
Shortly afterwards, the one who targeted the government was Eduardo López, but his criticisms were of the vaccination plan: "
Having 5 million vaccines in refrigerators is outrageous
, a failure of the system," he declared.
He also stated that "the best vaccine is the one that is placed in an arm, and the worst is the one that is not placed.
It is a postponed subject, not with 1, but with zero
."
He also questioned that "the vaccinations on Saturdays and Sundays have little service or are closed. Argentina has the need and the obligation to increase the rate of vaccination."
After the distancing, now the Government sought to be close to the professionals who at the beginning of the pandemic were summoned to support health decisions and the restrictions imposed by the quarantine.
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