{"id":237231,"date":"2021-04-08T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=237231"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:22:59","slug":"experts-affirm-that-pandemic-exhaustion-causes-low-risk-perception-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/coronavirus\/experts-affirm-that-pandemic-exhaustion-causes-low-risk-perception-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts affirm that \u201cpandemic exhaustion\u201d causes low risk perception in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts pointed to \u201cpandemic exhaustion\u201d as one of the causes of the low perception of risk in the Cuban population in the face of the increase in <\/span>COVID-19<\/span><\/a> infections, at a time when the island is going through its worst coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n

The national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Dr. Francisco Dur\u00e1n, said this Tuesday that despite the educational messages, measures and actions that have been established in the country, the perception of risk is not good, with an average of more than a thousand cases per day in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 0.54% lethality caused by the virus on the island, lower than that of the world (2.17%) and that of Latin America of (2.41), is one of the factors that have an influence on Cubans\u2019 erroneous view about the disease, according to the criteria of the specialists, cited by <\/span>Juventud Rebelde<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So far Cuba does not report deaths under 20 years of age due to COVID-19 thanks to the efforts of pediatricians and intensivists, in addition to the strict protocol applied to pediatric patients, as well as to all positive cases, Dur\u00e1n stressed in a press conference at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n

This and the fact that 93% of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 on the island so far have recovered are also, in the opinion of the specialist, \u201cfactors that influence the erroneous view\u201d of the Cubans about COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the epidemiologist insisted that some of those recovered later have aftereffects and these can be perceived a year after the pandemic was declared.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba: study reveals sequelae of COVID-19 in patients who got to intensive care<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n