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The General Director of Public Health of Asturias, Rafael Cofiño , remembers the press conference in which the first case of covid-19 was announced in his Autonomous Community. “There were five of us sitting without masks in a room full of people, look if we had no idea,” he assures SINC. This family doctor thus points out the “total uncertainty” in the first moments of the pandemic and “how little was known about some things.” After a year of seeing science work live, the harvest of evidence has been prosperous: today we know better than then how we are infected, how to protect ourselves and who is most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2. “It was the first pandemic broadcast minute by minute,” says Cofiño, who assures that it is “very difficult” to communicate uncertainty. He considers that for public health it has been “very complex” to generate “empathy” and not “disaffection” when explaining progress and doubts.
In this article we review how science has illuminated part of the darkness in which we were mired a year ago. Who gets infected? The virus does understand classes One of the first slogans of the pandemic turned out to be as well-intentioned as it was erroneous: “The virus does not Belgium Mobile Number List understand class.” The phrase was intended to communicate that the covid-19 crisis was global, that no country or person was safe from the virus, and that the health of each person is interconnected with that of the rest. “When uncontrolled community transmission began in March, it seemed that everyone was exactly the same vulnerable,” epidemiologist Pedro Gullón explains to SINC . “It was not known how [the coronavirus] had arrived, but suddenly anyone could be infected.” Time showed that not so impartial. This did not surprise experts: already in the 19th century, pathologist Rudolf Virchow realized that the chances of suffering from typhus depended on social factors such as housing and work . These are differences that are observed even in non-infectious diseases, such as diabetes.
In the century, covid-was not going to be an exception. Little by little, the initial slogan became “no one is safe unless we are all safe . ” “The discourse began to change during the second wave , when it was more evident that there are social inequalities in health because there are social inequalities,” Gullón clarifies. It refers to those summer months in which, after the transmission of the coronavirus subsided, it increased again little by little with small outbreaks. Temporary immigrants, people with poor housing conditions, hospitality workers, districts of Madrid and Barcelona with double the incidence than others... That was when it was seen that contagion conditions have a social pattern Pedro Gullón, epidemiologist "Temporary immigrants, people with poor housing conditions, hospitality workers, districts of Madrid and Barcelona with double the incidence than others... That was when it was seen that contagion conditions have a social pattern.
In this article we review how science has illuminated part of the darkness in which we were mired a year ago. Who gets infected? The virus does understand classes One of the first slogans of the pandemic turned out to be as well-intentioned as it was erroneous: “The virus does not Belgium Mobile Number List understand class.” The phrase was intended to communicate that the covid-19 crisis was global, that no country or person was safe from the virus, and that the health of each person is interconnected with that of the rest. “When uncontrolled community transmission began in March, it seemed that everyone was exactly the same vulnerable,” epidemiologist Pedro Gullón explains to SINC . “It was not known how [the coronavirus] had arrived, but suddenly anyone could be infected.” Time showed that not so impartial. This did not surprise experts: already in the 19th century, pathologist Rudolf Virchow realized that the chances of suffering from typhus depended on social factors such as housing and work . These are differences that are observed even in non-infectious diseases, such as diabetes.
In the century, covid-was not going to be an exception. Little by little, the initial slogan became “no one is safe unless we are all safe . ” “The discourse began to change during the second wave , when it was more evident that there are social inequalities in health because there are social inequalities,” Gullón clarifies. It refers to those summer months in which, after the transmission of the coronavirus subsided, it increased again little by little with small outbreaks. Temporary immigrants, people with poor housing conditions, hospitality workers, districts of Madrid and Barcelona with double the incidence than others... That was when it was seen that contagion conditions have a social pattern Pedro Gullón, epidemiologist "Temporary immigrants, people with poor housing conditions, hospitality workers, districts of Madrid and Barcelona with double the incidence than others... That was when it was seen that contagion conditions have a social pattern.