Coronavirus vaccines work. Mortality among residents of homes for the elderly and people with disabilities of all autonomy decreased almost completely once the complete inoculation campaign of this drug was finished, and after 14 days after the application of the second dose. In addition, no death of any resident from this cause has been reported since March 21 in the entire autonomous community.
Specific, the open data of the Junta de Castilla y León They point out that 2,955 people living in the seven hundred autonomous centers of these characteristics have died throughout the pandemic due to the contagion of the coronavirus. Another 1,105 have done so with compatible symptoms of COVID-19 but not confirmed with proof, until accounting for 4,060 deaths in residential centers.
Castilla y León has been the second autonomous community with the most deaths from coronavirus. According to the latest government report of the 29,504 deaths, it only exceeds the Castilian and Leonese community in lethal incidence of the virus in residences in Catalonia, with 5,437. Regarding infections in residences, Castilla y León has been the most affected community, with 16,760 cases. According to data from the Junta de Castilla y León on total mortality, 4 out of 10 deaths from COVID in the community have been residents.
The vaccination campaign began on December 28, and the last inoculations of the second dose occurred in mid-February. As you have to wait between ten and 14 days for it to take effect, at the beginning of March it could be said that residents were fully protected against COVID-19.
In this way, these data indicate from December 28 to February 28, 303 people died in the nine provinces (which would add to the 2,645 in all of 2020). However, since March 1, only 7 people have died from this casuistry in the entire Autonomous Community, 3 of them in León, and 4 more in the provinces of Ávila, Burgos, Palencia and Salamanca (1 in each). That is, in both Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora there were no reported deaths of residents since that date.
Furthermore, in Zamora not a single death has been reported since February 12, in Segovia since February 19, in Valladolid since February 24 and in Soria since February 28. In the others, the last death added to the open data table is on March 3 in Palencia, on March 5 in Salamanca, in Ávila on 12, in Burgos on 17 and the last of all autonomy in León, on March 21 . It can be said that the fatal curve collapses just as the second round of vaccination in nursing homes ends.
This indicates the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing the death of the elderly, who are the ones who have suffered the most the lethal consequences of covidiosis, with more than nine of each of those killed by the pandemic in the autonomous community . In addition, some of the deaths that have occurred in March of people who lived in these centers; both deaths within them and those transferred to hospitals, which is what this statistic indicates.
Deaths by provinces
In total, the deaths in these residential centers have been about four thousand people (four out of ten in the entire community). Of them, the vast majority died in the first three months of the pandemic with the peak in April (with almost half of all of them) and in the last quarter of 2020, plus the 303 of the first two months of the year. It should also be noted that three quarters of them were confirmed with evidence of their covidiosis.
In total, the province with the most deaths –sAccording to the open data table on the situation of coronavirus patients in nursing homes– It was that of León, with 721 (17.76% of the total); followed by Valladolid, with 701 (17.27%) and Salamanca, with 617 (15.20%). The deaths in these centers were 475 in Burgos (11.70%), 443 in Segovia (10.91%), 307 in Zamora (7.56), 269 in Ávila (), 268 in Palencia (6.60%) , and 259 in Soria (6.30%).
In the first two months of this year (or rather from December 28 to February 28 during the vaccination campaign), the data was of 61 deaths in Salamanca, 59 in Palencia, 41 in Valladolid, 33 in León, 29 in Zamora, 27 in Soria, 26 in Burgos, 16 in Ávila and 11 in Segovia. It must be taken into account that some residences could not begin the protection of their residents because contagions had been detected within them that delayed the entry of the sanitary teams until they were considered clean.
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