The Chinese city of Wuhan, origin of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic coronavirus, has returned to confinement. The authorities have decreed that more than a million inhabitants remain locked up in their homes. According to official data, the measure has been taken after detecting four asymptomatic cases of coronavirus.
Beyond the utopian strategy of covid zero that China intends to implement, the disproportion between the number of infected and the harshness of the restrictions once again puts the focus on the credibility of the statistics reported by the Asian country regarding the coronavirus.
The debate goes back to the beginning of the year 2020 when in January the Spanish doctor Pedro Cavadas, father of two daughters of Chinese origin, questioned the figures that the communist dictatorship was communicating about covid cases and their mortality: «» You don’t have to be very smart to think that they are 10 or 100 times more«. The surgeon, who is part of the forbes list of the best doctors, he was accused of being an “alarmist”. Even his arguments were refuted by spokesmen for the World Health Organization (WHO).
The evolution of the disease would soon agree with Pedro Cavadas, who predicted that a pandemic “could decimate the world population”, as it has happened. Now, more than two and a half years later, Wuhan it confines a million people again but only communicates four positives for coronavirus who, in addition, do not present symptoms. By way of comparison, in the Valencian Community, where restrictions are not applied, more than 3,500 infections of covid and 38 deaths as a result of the coronavirus in the last week.
Pedro Cavadas already warned in January 2020 that the situation in China heralded the spread of a particularly “dangerous” virus: “When a hospital is built with 800 100-tonne backhoes and a ‘mega-hospital’ is built in three weeks, it is not a joke to sell masks ».
Although the vaccination process in countries like Spain has mitigated the effects of coronavirusthe reality is that the pandemic persists and continues to claim fatalities after having reached the seventh wave this summer.
Less effective vaccines and fourth dose in Spain
In this regard, experts such as Margaret of the Valley o Luis Enjuanes They have warned of the risk that coronavirus infections will spread again from the fall. The loss of effectiveness of vaccines and the fact that more than one billion inhabitants of the planet have not received a single dose still explains the proliferation of new variants of the covid and the persistence of the pandemic.
Two factors also alerted them in 2020 Pedro Cavadas. The surgeon, in fact, explained then that “several years” would have to pass both to develop a fully effective and safe vaccine and for the entire population to be protected against the coronavirus.
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Image taken at a vaccination point against covid in Valencia
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In this sense, on the horizon of next autumn hovers the possibility of the fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Spain while in many countries the first has not yet been inoculated.
According to the virologist Luis Enjuanes, it is likely that “people who have been vaccinated three times will have to be vaccinated a fourth; because immunity in respiratory mucous membranes we only have one percent left ».
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