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Every July and August some 65,000 people die in Spain, of which approximately 20,000 die from cardiovascular diseases, 18,000 from cancer, 6,500 from respiratory diseases and 3,500 from diseases of the digestive system. Some 600 people commit suicide, 200 die in car accidents and a similar number drown on beaches or in swimming pools. Nobody …
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Throughout these confusing months, the surprising doubts created about natural immunization by those who had passed the Covid have contrasted with a paradoxical and excessive hope in the arrival of an artificial immunization resulting from a vaccine that, as we will see, we must contemplate with enormous doses of prudence. Since the end of the …
Many years ago, the health minister of an African country argued that garlic and lemon intake was effective in fighting AIDS[1]. With similar scientific rigor, almost all Spanish regional governments now demand the use of masks outdoors even if you are completely alone in the street or in the middle of nowhere. The gold medal …
In 1968, the third flu pandemic of the 20th century killed at least one million people worldwide (100,000 just in the US), half of them under 65. However, it is seldom remembered, because, although sensible measures were taken such as wearing masks on public transport, ensuring better hand hygiene and avoiding gatherings, no government locked …
The terrible drip of death and suffering we have experienced with the pandemic has created a collective trauma aggravated by the cruel lockdown and depressing hammering of media sensationalism, which has created a distorted image of SARS-CoV-2. Likewise, some specialists’ opinions have translated into unnecessary levels of uncertainty by discrediting, with excessive empiricism, that which …
In countries freer than ours, criticism is growing of this shortsighted and panicked reaction called lockdown, with its brutal social and economic consequences and whose long-term health effectiveness is beginning to be called into question. In the words of Stanford biology professor and Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, “there is no doubt in my mind what …
The Netherlands and France have announced that they will open primary schools in a few days, Denmark has already done so, Germany is allowing the opening of some small shops and Austria will also extend it to shopping centers, bars and restaurants over the next two weeks. In Spain there are entire regions less affected …
Spain is the country with the highest coronavirus mortality in the world, adjusted by population: 547 “official” deaths per million people (including the new figures from Madrid and Catalonia regions published yesterday), as compared to 358 in Italy, 263 in France, 202 in the United Kingdom, 86 in the USA, 62 in Portugal, 46 in …
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