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Punta Arenas became the country’s city, after Santiago, which generated more transfers of COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the pandemic. Thus, from August 27 to date, 41 people have already been mobilized, of which 38 were only during the month of September.
The head of the transfer coordinating group, Dr. Rodrigo Hernández, explained that “since it was required to address the transfers from the Magallanes region last month, one of the private companies that has participated has a plane with the capacity to transport two simultaneous critical COVID patients, with their respective medical equipment and equipment. “
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In addition, he added that the same company left a plane “permanently located and available in Punta Arenas to bring two patients if necessary on each trip, which is more efficient without lowering quality or safety. These transfers have also made it possible to bring complex medical equipment to Punta Arenas when required.”, He indicated.
Remember that transfers are made by order of the Ministry of Health, in coordinated work with the Central Metropolitan Health Service, the FACh, Carabineros, the Metropolitan SAMU and other private transport companies.
In addition, all of them are carried out under the same conditions and in mobile ICUs, with demanding health and safety protocols, so that 100% of them have been carried out successfully, without incidents on the way and the patients arriving in good condition. conditions to the destination premises.
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🔹 850 hospitalized
🔹 630 in mechanical ventilation
🔹 116 critics
🔹 457 fans available
🔹 27,509 PCR tests performed (3,322,315 in total) pic.twitter.com/EspwhwyfVO– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) September 30, 2020
Although during the peak of the pandemic patients were transferred from Santiago to regions, today it is the other way around. So, Since July, the capital has become the main destination for transfers originating from regions, with today 160 patients received in different public and private areas in Santiago.
Moderna says her vaccine in preparation also generates antibodies in older adults
The pharmaceutical Modern assured this Tuesday that its budding vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19, the MRNA-1273, “It can generate neutralizing antibodies in the elderly and elderly at levels comparable to (the one it generates in) young adults”, as suggested by provisional data published in the journal The New England Journal of Medicine.
“These provisional data from Phase 1 suggest that mRNA-1273, our candidate to become a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19, can generate neutralizing antibodies in older adults and the elderly at levels comparable to those of younger adults.”said Tal Zaks, MD, Ph. D., Moderna’s medical director, quoted in the note.
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Last July, the US pharmaceutical company announced the beginning of phase 3 of the trials of its experimental vaccine against the COVID-19 disease for the general population, which includes the participation of 30,000 volunteers; and its CEO, Stephen Bancel, said in the middle of the month that they could find out if their vaccine is effective in October, although she considered that it is most likely that those expected data on the final phase of its development will arrive in November .
“Given the increased morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 in older adults and the elderly, these data give us optimism in demonstrating the protection of mRNA-1273 in this population”Zaks added.
