At the end of March 2021, when the controversy was raging over the different treatment that Madrid and Barcelona gave to the activity of the bars, the Secretary of Public Health, today the Minister of Health of the Generalitat, Josep Maria Argimon, said together with the President of the Barcelona College of Physicians, Jaume Padrós: «The price of life in Madrid is lower than in Catalonia».
They lied, of course.
These were the reasons I gave then: But neither Padrós nor Argimón would be in a position to demonstrate that the open bars are responsible for these deaths, even if the numbers accompanied them.
And the formidable thing is that they do not accompany them.
Between August 2020 and April 2021 -that is, during the so-called second and third waves- more people have died in Catalonia than in Madrid due to the disease and the proportion of deaths per million inhabitants has been almost the same (© Josep Lluís de Villasante).
This was not the case in the first months of 2020, when the two communities -like those of all of Spain- applied the same general closure and in Madrid a greater number of people died then.
But I will not follow the scientific method of Padrós and Argimón and write that open life saves lives.
Although I am in a tris».
The Lancet
has just added definitive reasons to those reasons in the most extensive study to date on anticipated death, the so-called
excess death,
between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021. It is not that Catalonia has a rate of death greater than Madrid.
It is that his is the highest in Spain.
At the level, exactly, of Caribbean America.
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