“It is important to talk about the recovery rate for coronavirus” | Goodism Good

According to him last report provided by the Ministry of Health, the number of people infected by coronavirus in Spain already rises to more than 4,000 cases, a figure that is expected to increase in the coming weeks. The first cases that came to light of faces known in the country were those of VOX politicians. Javier Ortega Smith and Santiago Abascal, but the virus has also reached the left: the same Irene Montero counted in your Twitter account who had tested positive after starting to feel some symptoms. And not only in Spain: the actor Tom Hanks or basketball player Rudy Gobert They are also world-famous characters who are being victims of this disease.

In Goodism Good this week they have talked to Juan Carlos Villena, sports journalist of the Las Provincias newspaper that has been in the news for being one of the first cases of the virus in Spain. Villena was infected through a colleague with whom he was in contact and who traveled to Italy in the well-known Atalanta – Valencia held on February 19. The Valencian has been hospitalized for 16 days in the Valencia Clinical Hospital completely isolated after having suffered complications at the beginning of his infection: “My positive under normal circumstances would have been to spend it at home, but I have apnea and that makes me a risk patient.” account by phone.

The sports journalist wanted to make a statement to favor of public health Spanish: “We have professionals who do not believe it, they are taking good care of us. They are the best. “In addition, he has also sent a message of calm: “If the extreme measures being taken are being taken, it is not because the virus is more serious, but because it must be prevented from spreading so that the health system does not collapse”.

The Valencian has also emphasized the importance of talking about people who are recovering: “I hear a lot how the media talks about new infected and deaths from coronavirus, but we must also start talking about negatives and hospital discharges, which are many“He comments. Villena understands the psychosis that is being experienced but, as an infected person, he would like to see so much fear and fear being left aside: “The important thing is to stop the curve, become aware that you don’t have to go to places where there can be a lot of people and stay home as much as you can.”

Villena’s parents have also tested positive for COVID-19 and are hospitalized in the same hospital as their son. “They are right in the room opposite. The other day they opened the doors of my room and theirs so that we could greet each other from afar, it was very nice,” says the journalist. The Valencian has assured that, if he has learned anything from this virus, it is that can be spread by being asymptomatic, because that’s how they infected him and that’s how he infected his parents. “They are both evolving very well, older people also recover from this virus“

Juan Carlos Villena wanted to end by affirming that the best is take things with encouragement and humor, and it is the clear example of how to do it: “I do not have much to do in being four walls, I am devouring the books that I had pending, all the podcasts there have been and for having … Thankfully my contacts have given me the WiFi password and I don’t have to spend mobile data, “he added with a laugh.

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