COVID-19 a naranja y el desconfinamiento progresivo hay un riesgo de que se dé un repunte de la epidemia, reconoció el subsecretario de Salud Hugo López-Gatell en la conferencia de este sábado." data-reactid="19">With the change in traffic lights of the pandemic from COVID-19 to orange and the gradual lack of control, there is a risk that the epidemic will pick up, Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell acknowledged at the conference this Saturday.
The official said that it is unrealistic to think that a disease ends overnight, as well as to think that its extinction can be accelerated, but that it is something that will be maintained and therefore certain measures must be followed to reduce contagions as much as possible.
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“We have to reach an appropriate balance point, and at this moment when in some states it is already beginning to appreciate, and that means the color orange at the traffic lights, a reduction in the number of daily hospitalizations, a reduction in the number of daily cases, a hospital occupation that begins to suffice, so we begin to lose focus, to open up. How ?, in a way that must be orderly, progressive, careful and keeping a close watch, every day we do it, of the epidemic behavior in each one of the territories of the country ”, he pointed out.
For this reason, he emphasized that the new normality implies that contact with other people continues to be avoided, that non-urgent activities such as meetings with family or friends are postponed, despite the fact that they have not been seen for a long time, and that the face mask is used whenever there is no distance, to avoid contagions as much as possible, and that businesses are reopening little by little.
“It does not mean that we are exempt from the risk of the epidemic picking up anywhere in the country. It can happen, it has happened in other countries. In other countries, what they have done is: the moment they detect that the epidemic is beginning to rebound, they backtrack on some of the measures and establish restrictions, starting with those activities that involve the greatest number of people in public space ” he warned.
He recalled that, for example, with the influenza A H1N1 virus, which emerged in 2009 and also became a pandemic, until 2014 there have been periodic outbreaks.
COVID-19 se sumará a las enfermedades respiratorias que causan estos fallecimientos." data-reactid="27">He also detailed that 28 thousand people die each year in Mexico from influenza or pneumonia, although this latest diagnosis is not always reached, and that now the COVID-19 disease will add to the respiratory diseases that cause these deaths.
Asked about the follow-up that is given to recovered patients, he said that a collaboration agreement was made with the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) to show the public pulmonary physiotherapy exercises that can help the recovery of those who had the disease. severe mode and had tissue damage to the lungs.
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COVID-19 por el desconfinamiento, advierte López-Gatell apareció primero en Animal Político." data-reactid="30">The charge There is a risk of a rebound of COVID-19 due to lack of confinement, López-Gatell warns, appeared first in Animal Político.
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