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The Ministry of Health in Spain has acknowledged that the current health reports are confusing
With the seventh wave of the coronavirus pandemic seemingly slowing down at last, the Spanish Ministry of Health has decided to alter the way it presents it bi-weekly data, to differentiate between patients who are hospitalised because of Covid and patients who are in hospital with Covid.
On the surface it may seem like simple semantics, but the difference in analysing the evolution of the pandemic is very important, and the new system should be less confusing and provide “more adequate information” about the profile of patients who are currently hospitalised, according to the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias.
Up until now, more than two years after the start of the pandemic and almost four months after the establishment of the new Covid-19 surveillance system, the Ministry of Health’s report on the evolution of the coronavirus, which is published twice a week, does not make this distinction.
This causes patients who have arrived at the hospital due to a clinical ailment caused by Covid-19 to be mixed in the same statistics, as has happened throughout the pandemic, with others who are admitted for other reasons but who, being hospitalised, have subsequently tested positive for coronavirus, despite the fact that their pathology is not related to the virus and should not be particularly affected by it.
Since the beginning of March, the Spanish government only reports on the data of people over the age of 60, which suggests at the moment that the spread of the virus is slowing down. However, a recent study of the entire population shows that, in fact, the average incidence of Covid is at the highest it has ever been.
Despite this damning report, Ms Darias has celebrated this week the fact that the number of daily cases has “stabilised and even decreased,” particularly impacting hospital wards and ICU beds.
Regarding the fourth coronavirus vaccine dose, the minister confirmed on Wednesday July 20 that the Public Health Commission has already approved its administration to people over 60 and other vulnerable groups.
“Everything points to the fact that this inoculation may start in the second half of September, with the foreseeable arrival of vaccines adapted to the variants,” Ms Darias concluded.
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