How did Spain get its coronavirus response so wrong?

The Guardian UK ^ | 3/26/2020 | Giles Tremlett

[Oshkalaboomboom]

It is one of the darkest and most dramatic moments in recent Spanish history. In the chilling table of daily dead from the coronavirus pandemic, Spain has taken top position from Italy - with 738 dying over 24 hours.

Spain is now the hotspot of the global pandemic, a ghoulish title that has been passed from country to country over four months – starting in Wuhan, China, and travelling via Iran and Italy. As it moves west, we do not know who will be next.

What went wrong? Spain had seen what happened in China and Iran. It also has Italy nearby, just 400 miles across the Mediterranean and an example of how the virus can spread rapidly and viciously inside Europe.

Yet Spaniards cannot blame that proximity. There are no land borders with Italy, while France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia – all countries that are doing much better – do have them.

This may, in fact, be one of the reasons for the country’s late response. Spain thought it was far enough away. “Spain will only have a handful of cases,” said Dr Fernando Simón, the head of medical emergencies in Madrid, on 9 February. Six weeks later he gives out daily figures of hundreds of deaths. The number of dead per capita is already three times that of Iran, and 40 times higher than China.

On 19 February, 2,500 Valencia soccer fans mixed with 40,000 Atalanta supporters for a Champions League game in Bergamo which Giorgio Gori, mayor of the Italian city, has described as “the bomb” which exploded the virus in Lombardy.

In Spain, Valencia players, fans and sports journalists were among the first to fall ill.

[patriotfury]

Just had a phone discussion with an insurance agent in TX last night, whose former husband, (55 years of age, and father to her son), quickly became very sick while in NY, NY.

After two nights in the hospital, his lungs could no longer function, he had a heart attack, and died. At least that is what they were told.

It was weird and dramatic, but they did not diagnose the SARS/COVID-19 until after he died. Then the hospital turned his body over to coroner who cremated him without the family’s permission, or any direction of his own. In fact he was against cremation. She said her former vet husband was cremated less than 72 hours from entering the hospital emergency room on his own.

He had no family present.

She really broke down on the phone with me...

He reached out to her and her son, and wanted to see them. Her son tried to get to the NY hospital from Texas, but was too late.

She said he had been an avid runner, and was healthy, and she did not believe he would die.

I just stayed on the phone with her, praying silently... broke my heart too...

[American in Israel]

The mandatory vaccinations were pneumonia and meningitis in Italy.
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Sorry I was not clear On that. I dont blame a particular vaccine itself, just the system shock immune response.