THE CLIMBING in the number of infections in recent weeks indicates that in Spain we have not yet learned the lessons left by the outbreak of the pandemic in mid-March. It does not appear, according to the outbreaks, that the necessary measures have been implemented. Neither the health system has been strengthened nor the essential number of trackers has been enabled, nor the nursing homes have returned to being safe places given the increasing contacts in several of them. In parallel to this worrying ineffectiveness on the part of the public administrations, the uncivil behaviors show that a part of the citizenry has not yet assumed the duty to modify habits in our lifestyle to avoid the transmission of the coronavirus.

It is not enough to extend the mandatory use of the mask or to relax due to the fact that the bulk of infections is now located, unlike spring, in the group of asymptomatic young people. The risk of a second wave across the country is imminent if the necessary instruments are not mobilized to stop the expansion of Covid-19. The Government of PSOE and Podemos faced the management of the pandemic from unpredictability and negligence. It no longer has a solution, but it can, at least, demand learning from the lacerating mistakes of the past. This explains why some twenty first-rate public health specialists publish a joint letter today in the scientific journal The Lancet, in which they demand "an independent evaluation" of the response to the epidemic in the country. It is a reasonable and timely demand that is already being carried out in other countries, such as Sweden, with much lower death rates. The audit should be independent and prioritize the drawing of conclusions in order to anticipate before second waves or future epidemics. Experts wonder how it is possible that one of the best healthcare systems in the world has not prevented Spain from being one of the countries that has registered the highest mortality and morbidity rates from Covid-19. They point out the delay in decision-making, the lack of coordination between the Government and the Autonomous Communities - despite the fact that Health assumed central command - and the lack of resources in nursing homes. On the other hand, they emphasize the deficiencies of the epidemiological surveillance systems, the limitations in the diagnostic capacity and the alarming absence of personal protective equipment.

All this confirms the need to carry out an audit that, far from the partisan brawl, allows reviewing serious flaws such as the capacity of the information systems - the chaos in the data cannot be perpetuated -, the human and financial resources, or the infrastructure available . All the institutions, starting with the Government, cannot look the other way. The only way to deal with pandemic risks is to prevent. To do this, it is essential to review past errors, even if this is a political mockery for health authorities who acted with insolvency, recklessness and incapacity.

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