66 new cases this Saturday

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

This Saturday, 20 November, the Region has 66 new cases of covid-19 and 34 recovered, and the number of active cases is now 494.

According to data provided by the Regional Secretariat for Health and Civil Protection, the new cases include 65 of local transmission and one case imported from the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region. Epidemiological investigations remain ongoing.

According to regional health authorities, 50 people are hospitalized at Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital, 44 of which are in Polyvalent Units and six in the Intensive Care Unit dedicated to covid-19.

 

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6 Responses

  2. How sad! All these hospitalisations and patients ending up in the ICU is all avoidable. if only they managed the situation like they do in India, many US states and many other countries, where they used the safe and effective early treatments. Just look at the numbers for the doctors who are using these treatments – they barely lose any patients, even really vulnerable ones, but its keeps being ignored and ignored. It doesn’t matter how many credible, world leading experts speak out of how much evidence they present, its just gets ignored and ignored and spun and spun! Im angry and everyone be. Why are we denying people lifesaving treatments? Why are we not using the tools at our disposal to keep people out of hospitals, even high risk patients?

    Instead governments here have only 1 strategy which they keep repeating over and over and it only causes harm and harrowing suffering. Im angry! Why are we continuing to let them do this? They make the public believe the disease is not treatable, they let people get sick to the point of requiring hospital treatment and ICU, then they reach a crisis points with healthcare systems overrun and the whole vicious cycle of lockdowns, restrictions, vicious, divisive rhetoric etc.

    Ultimately, its all about regulatory capture, corrupt public health officials and their conflicts of interest! Its criminal and it will be exposed! I look forward to seeing them in the dock!

    1. What on earth are you talking about. Thousands died in India, they were struggling to dispose of the bodies and hundreds were just being thrown in the Ganges. In the US, thousands have been hospitalised and have died.

    2. Do it like they do in India. Ha ha ha ha!! 465k deaths and counting. That would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

  3. I caught covid-19 end in March last year ( 2020 ). It was life threatening. It developed slowly over a week, in my case, my breathing becoming gradually more and more labouered and towards the fourth or fifth day a slight cough gradually becoming more and more persistent. My wife is a District Nurse and although I didn’t feel ill myself she could tell my health was now rapidly deteriorating and my temperature was constantly fluctuating between 36.9 and 41 and I still felt quite normal apart from the now non-stop coughing which, iI thought, was wht I started sleeping throughout the day not realising I was actually gravely ill, very uncarachterister of me, I can assure you. She rang the emergency health advice and patched her through to a doctor who orderes an ambulance to take me to hospital. This was the practice in the early days of covid’s developement as they were rapidly running out of bed spaces in all hospitals. I was rushed to intensive care and treated with very powerful antibiotics, a drip and oxygen for two days for double pnuemonia. This is how it stealthily manifested in me but not the same for everyone, that’s why it was nearly impossible to treat and was over running all medical staff and facilities everywhere ! I was very lucky, I survived, some didn’t, although after the advent of innoculations, the mortality rate started to greatly reduce except for elderly and those with comorbidities. In my case I was left with extreme shortness of breath for just over a year and was unable to speak more than one short sentance at a time without gasping for breath. I seem to be fully recovered now although I emphasise that the three vaccines we have all had to have in the UK since the beginning of this year has prevented many more serious illnesses and deaths from the virus, even if we catch it a second ot third time. The third vaccine shot is a boister which it has been recommended we need every six months to maintain our immunity to covid. We still are strongly advised to wear the correct, Blue coloured medically approved face mask in all indoor places to prevent spreading the disease, because even though we may have been vaccinated, we can still catch it and give it to others. It is very, very sad that still quite a large proportion of the population still thinks it just affects the elderly or already immuno – compromised people such as Cancer patients for example. If only the world’s governments woyld treat this pandemic as they do a ‘National Disaster’ with emergency measures and lawful enforcement, we may all be a lot safer.

  4. If the solution is more vaccination, why are we seeing an increase in cases with an already very high rate of vaccination of the population? In the coming months, it will be shown that vaccination is not the hope for the end of the pandemic some hoped it would be. I bet that even with near 100% vaccination, cases will continue to increase.

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