The director of the Hospital de Alta Especialidad de la Península de Yucatán (HRAEPY) in Mérida, Alfredo Medina Ocampo, informed that no person has been hospitalized for Covid-19 in the last few weeks.
In an interview, he said that the last patients hospitalized would have been discharged between the end of 2023 and the beginning of this year and, since then, the beds assigned to attend to these cases have remained empty.
“We have already 12 weeks, we have already 3 months, with no hospitalization problems. There are sporadic but outpatient cases. On average 4 or 5 a day, even so they still exist, despite the vaccine coverage but the Covid hospital was not dismantled,” he referred.
He said that most of the cases seen are mild, although he insisted that people who suffer from some comorbidity or do not have vaccinations are the most susceptible to experience serious cases of coronavirus.
In fact, in the last week in Yucatan, the federal Health Ministry confirmed the death of two people in the state and a little more than 60 new cases.
The executive acknowledged that the pandemic situation is at another extreme, due to the application of vaccines, although it was emphasized that the coronavirus is still circulating, only that its infection is less intense.
“We are migrating in our country to what is the pandemic problem. Today it is still in force in areas that we call epidemic and endemic because the virus continues to circulate. But, undoubtedly, we were vaccinated and with the vaccine, the problem may occur. It will be like a mild influenza or a mild cold”, he remarked.
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