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Year horribilis Covid closes with a peak in deaths from Europe to America, with thousands and thousands of families who will experience the transition to 2021 in mourning.
In Europe the Germany to record your negative history: 1,100 died in one day. Never have so many in this country ever been considered virtuous in handling the pandemic.
On the other side of the Atlantic, things are no better: in U.S almost registered 4 thousand deaths in 24 hours (3,927 to be precise), the highest daily value since the beginning of the epidemic in the United States, more than 200 deaths more than the previous day, which already marked a negative record. The country led (still briefly) by Donald Trump struggling with one particularly violent second wave, which brought the total deaths to 342,000, with cases of the English variant reported in Colorado and California.
Peak deaths also in Venezuela with 1,224 daily deaths: Never so many since last August 20 in a country hit by the virus: in total the official deaths are 194,000.
If in the United States and Venezuela the highly lethal aspect of the pandemic largely due to its mismanagement by denialist leaders, who for months have lessened its impact, denying the usefulness of masks, distancing and restrictive measures, even with macho exits (Only being the country of girls, the virus must be taken head-on as Bolsonaro declared), How did we get to this tragic point in Germany?
There are several factors to consider. First of all The average age of those infected in the second wave has increased, now the virus is hitting the most vulnerable: in fact, one in two deaths is over 80 years old. The coronavirus is spreading more evenly in the population, explained in recent days the president of the Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler. Germany, along with Italy, is the country with the oldest average age in Europe. If in the first wave the outbreaks were in families returning from mountain vacations and carnival parties with a low average age of those infected, in the second wave the virus also reached the RSA.
Another factor behind the current high German mortality is the inability of local health offices to continue tracking those infected. But there a decisive role was played hospital crisis: departments are under stress due to understaffing, many intensive care has had to close due to lack of doctors and nurses and so remove many patients from treatment.
Last but not least: the German Federalism, As Berlin correspondent Paolo Valentino points out, it proved problematic in managing the pandemic: for months local authorities were reluctant to implement the restrictions that the chancellor could only suggest. It was only in mid-December that the country as a whole adopted a harsh blockade. But today’s disaster has been brewing for months.
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