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From Health, it has already been pointed out on some occasion the current sources of transmission are found in homes and hospitals . In the latter, in addition to patients, health professionals are part of the target of the virus , in Spain they amount to almost 44,000, 20% of all of them . And the problem is more worrying when our country leads the world ranking.

While here one in five is infected in other countries such as China, they only report 3.8% and in the US they represent between 3% on average in the country to 11% in some states. This image is collected by a report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in late April, which highlighted the differences between the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. In this sense, Italy is the closest to Spain, but only reaches it with 11% global , and equates with one of its most affected areas, Lombardy, where they do reach our 20%.

In Spain, the working conditions of health professionals, without protective material or in its defective defect , have compromised their health in the exercise of their activity. Faced with this, Salvador Illa, Minister of Health, has repeatedly avoided answering the question of whether the high rate of infection in Spain is due to this problem. At most, he commented, in successive press conferences, that almost 40% have already recovered .

Thus, the imprudence of the supply of defective masks by the Illa portfolio will be brought before the Supreme Court by the Independent Trade Union and Official Central (CSIF). The union is finalizing a complaint against Health for the management of the Covid-19 crisis, which will incorporate the alarming increase in contagions among health personnel, along with the distribution of unapproved masks.

Within the ECDC report, it is noted that in a Dutch study, only 3% of healthcare workers reported having been exposed to hospitalized patients with Covid-19 before the onset of symptoms and 63% had worked while asymptomatic . Here in Spain, professionals demand tests to know their state of health. Furthermore, little is known about the prophylaxis study among this sector that Health announced a few weeks ago. Illa Yaer responded, in her appearance after the Council of Ministers, that "it has been launched, in some communities they are more advanced than others. But, we still do not have data."

A sector very punished

The director of the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, referred yesterday to this serious matter since the figures do not drop among professionals , as the general ones do, and even some days in volume higher than the set of the entire Spanish population. Thus, it did this Monday when the number of new infected toilets almost quadrupled that of new positives in the general population.

This Tuesday, the figures estimate specifically 631 new positives in toilets up to 43,956 cases since the start of the epidemic. Simón did not finish clarifying the reason for this high figure, nor its possible relationship with the use of defective masks in various regions.

He only acknowledged that among the health workers "in principle there was no indication of a test if they were not ill" , but as there has been less pressure on care, some studies have been carried out. A fact that has been carried out in the Netherlands, where workers were voluntarily evaluated for Covid-19 and 6% were positive.

Yes, Simón highlighted the fact that two large hospitals, one from Madrid and the other from Catalonia, were important centers where it would have been observed that 11% of all the health services had been infected. According to him, this figure is much less "than 3% in other regions". Without finishing clarifying whether the numbers of toilets are being computed in the general statistics (it must be borne in mind that some days the number of new infected toilets formally exceeds the global number of new contagions reported by Health), Simón only explained that the severity and lethality of the disease is lower among the health workers than in the population as a whole.

This fact is in line with its own sociodemographic structure, since the entire active healthcare community is by definition younger than 70 years and is more feminized, with the circumstance that the mortality from coronavirus is higher among those over 70 and men. . Specifically, only 11% need an ICU, compared to 40% overall , and only 1% require mechanical ventilation compared to 7% of the general population.

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