Something similar is happening now at the beginning and end of 2020, when we saw how the SARS-CoV-2 virus took possession of several territories. First with the cases of China, then with Europe and its alarming graphics, unlike today there are more vaccinated, however, indifference continues to cause havoc.
After a decrease in infections and deaths this past summer, it is once again news that Europe retakes its headquarters as the epicenter of the disease. This was stated a matter of days ago by the World Health Organization, and the cause of this lies in the little acceptance that anticovid-19 vaccines have had in those nations.
Like a tsunami, Covid-19 strikes again in Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Portugal, Romania. Record figures indicate that the pandemic will continue to disrupt hospitalizations, availability of medications and oxygen balloons. Although many refuse immunization, the relaxation of measures has led to an increase in infections.
BBC News Mundo recently published the considerations of Professor Lothar Wieler, from the Robert Koch Institute of Germany (IRK), responsible for disease control and prevention, who predicted an unfavorable result. Wieler warned that “if we do not take action now to counter it, this fourth wave will bring even more suffering.”
Even within Europe itself there are countries that are not in parallel conditions to that of the most complicated. Several factors affect the immunization of the general population, either by vaccines or the herd effect, and government measures. However, the current reality shows us that the pandemic has not yet ended.
Leaving this continent aside, knowing how the shots are going, we moved to our region. According to the Statista platform, in charge of collecting statistical data, the US, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are the ones that have accumulated the most positives and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 and where today there is a slight respite, but, How long will this last?
Everything will depend on how governments and institutions are able to cope with the situation, betting more and more people vaccinated, that the poorest societies have them within their reach, and that the population itself makes aware that Covid-19 is not something of the In the past, it has been a section in our lives for which we must take care to resist.
Cuba in the equation
Covid-19 entered Cuba in March 2020 as it did in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been a tough battle of learning about the new virus and resistance, between restrictive measures to guarantee physical and social distancing and other adjustments that have been incorporated throughout this time, won in practice.
Delta showed us, as well as India, Brazil, the US, that new, more communicable variants can emerge and shake communities. What was lived here in Matanzas will remain in the memory of many for life, and the moral is that it will not be in our favor, throwing ourselves into a shooting range without knowing the forces and weapons with which the enemy will attack us.
That is why the perception of risk must be kept high, not letting our guard down, especially now when the thaw at the national level is broader than last year. The difference between that November and now is that a high percent of the Cuban population already has their three doses and another part is preparing for the booster.
The truth is that, thanks to this “medical dictatorship”, one hundred percent of the Cuban population will be able to be fully immunized in the shortest possible time. The experiences in vaccination campaigns plus the gear that exists from the base of the health system, allows the connection between the Family Doctor and the community to be direct.
Whether in the most intricate communities or at the top of the hill, the bulbs of Soberana or Abdala will arrive, to give a yes to life equally to all. From the tip of Pinar del Río, to the other end in Guantánamo, without leaving the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud behind, each one of us is kept in mind.
After the three doses are insured for each inhabitant, the country prepares to produce and administer a booster dose. As of this November 8, it will be received by workers from the Manuel Fajardo, Joaquín Albarrán, Salvador Allende and Miguel Enríquez hospitals, and from the BioCubaFarma business group.
About 90 thousand health workers in Havana will be reinforced, at the same time that a study will be carried out to deepen how the reinforcement behaves with Soberana 01 and Soberana Plus, and compare results, explained Dagmar García Rivera, director of research at the Institute Finlay de Vacunas, according to the official website of the Ministry of Public Health.
Guanabacoa, San Miguel del Padrón, Habana del Este and Regla, and later, Boyeros, Cotorro and Arroyo Naranjo will be the first municipalities in the capital to receive the booster dose, in this case with Abdala. It will be carried out at the same time in high-risk areas. This strategy will guarantee better immunity for those who were vaccinated first.
It seems pure politicking, which many abhor as a result of the media campaigns organized against the government and the Cuban revolution, but producing and ensuring for the first three doses plus the booster dose, bulb by bulb, person by person, is not an easy task. , neither of big pharmaceuticals, nor of capitalism, it is pure human and social work.
