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The harsh analysis of the New York Times on the increase in poverty in Argentina by the pandemic – Economic, financial and business news

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The newspaper The New York Times released a report on the increase in poverty in Argentina during the coronavirus pandemic, and did so with the story of a family story.

“We are left with nothing ‘: The misery of Argentina deepens with the pandemic “, the New York newspaper titled the article that begins with a family story narrated by Carla Huanca, who together with her husband live in a humble neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

Count that per week, both of them they gathered around 25.000 pesos (u $ s 270) and cWith that money they planned to make arrangements at home, to be able to live in peace with their three children.

But these hopes were dashed after confinement by the Covid-19 pandemic. “We spent all our savings”, Carla Huanca pointed out, admitting that to eat they had to start eating receive emergency aid from the Argentine government. And they paid for the Internet connection for their children to remotely follow school classes.

The NOW contextualizes that the global economic devastation that accompanied the coronavirus was especially harsh in Argentina, which entered the pandemic plunged into a deep crisis. Its economy contracted almost 10% in 2020, marking the third consecutive year of recession.

The pandemic accelerated the exodus of foreign investment, and that caused the value of the Argentine peso to drop. It increased the cost of imports, such as food and fertilizers, and maintained the rate of inflation above 40%.

It also stands out that in Argentina, more than four out of ten Argentines are poor. Argentine finances are increasingly hit and the country must face a millionaire payment of a loan of US $ 57,000 million granted by the IMF in 2018 -in the management of Mauricio Macri-.

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Often completely unnoticed: recruits are newly infected with Sars-CoV-2

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Often completely unnoticed
Recruits are newly infected with Sars-CoV-2

In many young adults, a Sars-CoV-2 infection runs without problems, and often it even goes unnoticed. Researchers are using recruits in barracks in the United States to study whether these people are protected from being infected again.

A survived infection with Sars-CoV-2 does not fully protect young people from being infected again. This is based on an observational study of more than 3,000 members of the US Marine Corps, most of whom are male, and who were between 18 and 20 years old at the time of the investigation.

The recruits who wanted to complete their six-week basic training at the “United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island” all had to stay in quarantine for two weeks to protect themselves from infection. During this time, three PCR tests were carried out on them. If these were negative, the people tested were still sent to a monitored quarantine for two more weeks before they were allowed to enter the barracks premises. During this time, the blood of the prospective soldiers was tested for antibodies.

With these security measures, those responsible at the barracks tried to keep Sars-CoV-2 away. However, there were many new infections and even some reinfections among the recruits. In the study period between May and November 2020, the researchers led by Professor Stuart Sealfon from the Icahn School of Medicine on Mount Sinai saw re-infection in 19 of 189 of the people examined who were previously infected with Sars-CoV-2. In comparison, there were 1079 new infections in a total of 2247 recruits who were not previously infected. The figures show that almost half of the young men were infected before starting their training in the barracks, despite all the safety measures.

Reinfections likely in young people

The researchers believe that the risk of reinfection they found applies to many young people, but that the reinfection figures of almost 10 percent in the barracks, where many young people live in confined spaces, are not transferable to life outside of military stations . It is likely that the special living conditions on a military base with close personal contacts would have led to higher total infection rates than elsewhere, write the researchers, whose results were published in the journal “The Lancet”.

However, the figures also provide information that a survived infection does not leave a safe immunity in younger people. The researchers are also unable to provide any information about the duration of a possible immunity, since the time of the first infections was not known when they examined them, as these were usually without symptoms. However, the results provide some information about the secondary infections. The PCR test was only positive after seven days in 32 percent of the newly infected. Among the first infected recruits that was 47 percent. In addition, symptoms only occurred in 3 percent of a second infection. In the case of new infections, however, symptoms occurred in 32 percent.

Not enough antibodies

The researchers believe that a weak immune response in the body is likely to be the cause of secondary infections. Recruits with a low number of antibodies against the virus protein were just as frequently re-infected as recruits without prior infection. In addition, the serum of the recruits who were infected a second time was also less able to prevent the infection of cells in laboratory tests, the researchers further report.

The milder second infection was also associated with a lower viral load, which in turn indicates a lower probability of transmission. Nevertheless, according to a press release, Sealfon emphasized that young people should be vaccinated for their own protection and that of others, even if they already had an infection with Sars-CoV-2.

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CORONA PANDEMIC: The vaccination prioritization could fall as early as May I WELT News – WELT news channel

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Mourning for 80,000 CORONA DEADS in Germany: Incidence rises to 162 | WELT Newsstream – WELT news channel

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in face-to-face classes in Campeche there may be resistance

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Before returning to face-to-face classes tomorrow in Campeche, the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) warned that there may be some resistance, however, it said that it is necessary to return to the classrooms with all the necessary measures to safeguard the integrity of the school community.

In a statement, the general secretary of the SNTE, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, recognized the commitment of education workers to respond to the “new challenge” posed by the gradual return to face-to-face classes in the state.

He stressed that the reopening of schools will begin after the epidemiological traffic light conditions were met in green and the vaccination of all teaching staff and support, as requested by the teacher organization.

In Campeche, the first state to return to face-to-face and voluntary classes, 137 schools will open their doors, of which 104 are general schools and 33 of indigenous education, where 278 teachers will serve 5,972 students, the union explained.

The teacher leader assured that for months the union prepared to return to face-to-face classes.

“We identify the irreducible actions that we must agree with the educational authorities, with the social security authorities, and what directly corresponds to us as leaders. In addition to reviewing and resolving the basic conditions of each school, especially those associated with the needs of drinking water and sanitation, ”he said.

In addition, he highlighted the collaboration of the authorities and the school community to condition and clean the schools with the materials provided by the entity’s Secretary of Education.

Cepeda Salas asked the teachers who will return to the schools to be very careful in complying with hygiene protocols and healthy distance, in coordination with parents.

To the teachers, he reminded them that the SNTE will continue to support them with materials, printed, electronic, courses and conferences to facilitate the adaptation process, as well as the identification of their students’ learning. Some of the documents are the preschool diagnostic booklet, primary diagnostic booklet and recommendations for a safe return to schools.

“My recognition to each and every one of the education workers. In the teaching profession we have always been able to respond to the challenges of the country. The Union is large, not only because of the number of its members, but also because of the vocation and professionalism that characterizes all of them. With your outstanding work, you have reconquered the value of the public school and the teachers; therefore, I know that once again we will succeed in this challenge, ”he said.

Finally, the national leader reiterated the union’s willingness to continue contributing to the strengthening of the educational system, from the scope of its competence, since “educating is the task that we choose to serve Mexico.”

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Covid-19 patient shocks the Netherlands after refusing vaccines

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A group of specialists in the Netherlands took the desperate action to reveal the story of a patient who is currently struggling to survive covid-19 after refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus with the dose of AstraZeneca, being a case that could be increasing in the nation, which also still has the Johnson & Johnson drugs stored due to the cases of clots that have been linked to it, the same thing happens with the first drug.

It is an open letter from health professionals who fear that these events will be repeated in the face of the media bombardment and the ignorance after the association of cases of thrombosis with both drugs, which, in the case of Johnson & Johnson, are only six in the United States, while in Europe and other parts of the world, the situation with the dose of AstraZeneca has not been comparatively higher than the millions of injections applied .

The missive, which is accompanied by an X-ray of the lungs of his patient that does not leave indifferent, is addressed to the acting Minister of Health, Hugo de Jonge, in a criticism of the stoppage of use of Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, and of age limitations on the use of AstraZeneca.

“Today the first patient who had refused to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine was admitted to our hospital after all the commotion in the press. We hear the tremendous regret in his voice and the despair in his eyes. The virus has attacked you and it could have been prevented. With your permission, we share your lung scan. It is not necessary to be a lung specialist to recognize the devastation, or an epidemiologist to explain the risks of not being vaccinated ”, they warned.

Netherlands has stored 80 thousand doses of Janssen since Monday pending a scientific recommendation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on its safety and its possible relationship with six cases of unusual blood clotting in the United States, the only country that has already used this single-dose vaccine.

In addition, and after the EMA alerted of a “possible link” of AstraZeneca with dozens of cases of very rare thromboembolism in people who received the injection, The nation decided to use it only in people over 60 years old, an age group where this preparation has shown fewer cases of this adverse effect.

After the debates about AstraZeneca and the divergences that European nations have shown on whether or not to continue vaccination with this preparation, 42 percent of those over 60 years of age are still unvaccinated in the Netherlands they refused to get this vaccine, according to an I&O survey commissioned by Dutch television NOS.

The signatories of the letter published this Friday, who are employees of the Zuyderland medical center, in the southeast of the Netherlands, have warned that “the risk of serious harm caused by covid-19 is ten times higher for people over 40 years old. Y 70 times higher for 60-year-olds, that the risk of serious damage by thrombosis ”of the vaccine.

“So far, we have cared for more than 3,000 coronavirus patients, and while (you) speak to experts about reopening society to offer perspective, we still see daily the tremendous consequences of this disease”They lamented.

The Dutch Executive presented last Tuesday a plan to “reopen society in a responsible manner” in the coming weeks and end the curfew as of April 28, but it conditioned it to control a third wave of infections that is unleashed, so this promise runs the risk of not being fulfilled until May.

This approach is highly criticized by those working on the front line against covid-19. “Employees legitimately wonder why should they continue to provide care without adequate protection, while the vaccines wait in the refrigerator ”, they denounced.

These doctors demand that the minister “stop delaying (vaccination) and causing concern“And they reminded him that” the figures show that the benefits of mass vaccination are overwhelming and do not lie. “

“Let people choose if they want to avoid a situation like that of our patient,” they urged, asking to make available “AstraZeneca, Janssen or any other vaccine” and advocated, like the majority in parliament, for “voluntary vaccination on the basis of informed consent ”.

In addition, as a conclusion to their letter, they threatened to use without permission the doses of AstraZeneca that they have in the refrigerator in the employees and doctors of the hospital center as of Monday, and warned that they will no longer “voluntarily and consciously cooperate with preventable harm” through vaccination.

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They limit medical care for trans people; suffer violence and discrimination

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Trans women and men face difficulties in accessing health treatments every day.

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Transgender women and men face difficulties in accessing health, endocrinological and reproductive health treatments and even suffer obstetric and sexual violence, warned UNAM academic and researcher Siobhan Guerrero.

For the activist and promoter of the rights of transgender communities, health personnel are unaware of the Protocol for Access without Discrimination to the Provision of Health Care Services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transvestite, Transgender and Intersexual People, that was launched in the previous six-year term and by which the generation of friendly environments for sexual identities is established, having sensitized personnel, promoting access to hormonal treatments, endocrinological, psychological, gynecological and breast control (in the case of transgender men) and general access to retroviral treatments and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

“Unfortunately this continues to happen, despite the fact that in the previous six-year term a regulation was made on health care for the entire LGBT + population and, of course, that protocol had a section dedicated to the trans population, and what What happens is that most of the doctors and health personnel in this country are unaware of it, as well as the laws against discrimination, ”he lamented.

Siobhan Guerrero considered that, despite the fact that legal frameworks exist, trans people continue to experience violence and discrimination in healthcare settings. He explained that the protocol is subject to the existing budget and has been a factor that health personnel still maintain prejudices and lack of knowledge about how to respectfully treat trans people.

“The problem with these regulations is that, in many places, the policies are subject to budget availability and that means that you cannot do it because there is no budget assigned. In many other cases, doctors do not know that this regulation exists, so they do not know that the right holders who are trans people could access these treatments free of cost ”, he explained.

LGBTI + POPULATION SUFFERED PANDEMIC

The Yaaj Mexico organization released the results of the report: Differentiated Impact of Covid-19 in the LBTI + Community in Mexico, in which 6,671 people from sexual diversity participated, of which 5.33%, that is, 329 , replied that he was infected with covid-19.

During the pandemic, seven out of 10 lost their income in whole or in part. The study emphasizes that, although LGBTI + people are considered a priority care group for the Ministry of Health, less than 10% of those surveyed had assistance to government programs.

Regarding family composition, 3.76% said that neither their partners nor their relatives had access to the health system.

It also indicates that 52.5% of those interviewed could not stay at home doing their jobs, and it was transgender people who could not take shelter.

In mental health, 25% said they stopped their mental health treatments.

People between 18 and 19 years old, 40% acknowledged having suicidal thoughts and 15% attempted suicide.

A third of those surveyed, 1,239 people, said that as a first medical option they looked for clinics attached to pharmacies.

39% of those consulted said they stopped their antiretroviral treatment for reasons related to the coronavirus pandemic.

While 47.26% stated that in their homes they suffered discrimination by their families due to the confinement, 36.46% in social networks or online platforms.

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In the “second life” of those vaccinated against covid-19, what has changed? | Report

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Isabel, Maria José, Rita, Tiago, Margarida, Otília, Etelvina, Mário. Eight people who do not know each other, who do not have the same routines or ages and who most likely never met on the street, but have one thing in common: they are (still) the few in Portugal who can say that they have already been vaccinated with two doses vaccine against covid-19. In the first moment of euphoria, the vaccine was seen as a lifeline, but, almost four months later, what has changed in the lives of people already vaccinated? In practice, very little. But there are those who sigh with relief after a year of trials.

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Portugal may not be able to administer so many vaccines that will arrive

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Within a maximum period of one month, Portugal may face a “strangulation” problem, as it is unable to administer all the vaccines that will arrive in the country in the meantime.

The concern was assumed, this Saturday afternoon, by the coordinator of the “task force” of the vaccination plan, Vice Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo.

On the day that the teaching and non-teaching staff of the schools began to be vaccinated, 63 thousand inoculations had already been administered until 2 pm. This, for the coordinator of the task force of the vaccination plan against covid-19, means that, by the end of the day, the goal of reaching close to 100 thousand vaccines per day will be fulfilled. “It was the big test we wanted to do,” explained Vice Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, passing through the Aveiro Vaccination Center.

The test allows, according to the official, to prepare the ground for the mass vaccination of the Portuguese population. And it is in this field that concerns arise, namely in terms of the volume of vaccines that are arriving in the country. “We are moving from a vaccination with little availability of vaccines, to a vaccination with a lot of availability of vaccines. There are concerns, namely in terms of strangulation”, explained Gouveia e Melo. For the vice-admiral, “what can happen”, in “between two to four weeks”, “is not being able to administer the vaccines that are arriving in national territory, because they are arriving in large quantities and we may not be able to get them administer in the time frame in which we need to do it “.

The cause for this “strangulation” can be linked, stressed the responsible, with “a scheduling problem or with a vaccine administration problem”. That is why the task force assumes that it is testing several different models, both scheduling and administration, to prevent the problem from arising. Despite this, Gouveia e Melo remains convinced that, at the end of the summer, 70% of the population will be vaccinated. “Unless there is a catastrophe in the supply of vaccines, I believe faithfully in this prediction”, he guaranteed, adding that, to date, “more than 2.2 million people” have been inoculated in Portugal.

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INFECTION PROTECTION ACT: Individual municipalities and regions pull the emergency brake in front of the federal government – WELT news broadcasters

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