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Hadeel Farfour wrote in the Al-Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper an article entitled: “Health affairs investigate deaths at home: Injury rate remains the same.”
“The decrease in the number of Coronavirus infections announced by the Ministry of Health in the last two days does not give much reason for optimism. The reason is simply that the number of laboratory tests decreased, and it was not a reflection of the decision to complete closure. While daily exam rates topped 12,000, it was done in hours. The past 24 has around six thousand exams (that is, half the rate), 1041 of which had a positive result, while 11 deaths were registered (the total of deaths amounted to 911). That is, the percentage of positive tests remains the same and is estimated at 15%, so this means that the full closure has not yet been translated, noting that the Minister of the Interior and Municipalities, Muhammad Fahmy, confirmed to “Al -Akhbar “that the” fate “of a full shutdown will be resolved today, after there was talk last week about reviewing the shutdown last week, and then about extending it as injuries continue to be reported. On Twitter, the director of Rafic Hariri Government Hospital, Firas Al-Abyad, said that while positive test results remain high, “we have not witnessed any significant increase in new cases or in the number of patients in cases critics or in the number of deaths “, noting that the positive effects For general closure« STEP began to appear “.
However, according to Al-Abyad and others concerned about the Corona file, the most prominent indicator of concern is related to the registration of some deaths due to viruses at home, and “the Ministry of Health is conducting investigations to find out the reasons that motivated the lack of recourse to hospitals. Were these risks not estimated or were they contacted the competent authorities and did not get a response? And the most important thing is, did they try to go to the hospitals and couldn’t find a place for them? “As asked by the member of Corona’s scientific monitoring committee, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Bizri, noting that the results of the research will be in the hands of the committee in the coming days.
Al-Akhbar tried to contact interested persons in the epidemiological surveillance department to find out the details of these deaths and their actual number (estimated at six cases), but received no response. The importance of the research is due to the need to know the meaning of this “phenomenon”, especially in terms of discovering the lack of response to patients or the refusal of hospitals to receive them despite all the “spirits” shown by the Ministry of Health last week.
At this time, a large part of those involved in the sanitary file are focusing on the part related to the vaccine “that Lebanon is expected to receive on February 10,” Hassan confirmed two days ago, noting that have entered into the first negotiations with the company “Pfizer”. Lebanon is at the forefront of the countries that will receive the vaccine. Regarding the technical difficulties related to cooling, Al-Bizri, who heads the scientific committee related to the study of vaccines, confirmed that the committee is developing proposals to facilitate technical matters. He indicated that Lebanon will continue in contact with companies concerned about other vaccines, “because the pressure on the first vaccine, the danger of its interruption and other factors that lead to its limitations are contained.” He explained that the Ministry of Health plans to require that around 40% of the population in Lebanon after the first quarter of next year receive the vaccine. Will the vaccine be free? Al-Bizri mentioned that the negotiations with “Pfizer” were direct, that is, “there is no agent to which the profits go, which facilitates the possibility of distributing the vaccine for free because the state does not usually sell vaccines.”
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