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This professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Valencia and a doctor from Harvard has highlighted that the pandemic has been a global problem for which society bears part of the responsibility.
The epidemiologist José María Martín Moreno, doctor in Public Health from Harvard University (United States), sees "indisputable" that Spain was late in responding to the coronavirus pandemic and has asked for greater participation by scientists in the management of the crisis.
During his appearance at the Commission for the Reconstruction of the Congress of Deputies, this professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Valencia and a doctor from Harvard has highlighted that the pandemic has been a global problem in which society as a whole bears part of the responsibility given the relationship between the destruction of forests and the collapse of biodiversity and the increase in epidemics.
"To err is human because our nature is fallible and our mistakes should not be hidden because they make us learn"
"This pandemic has been an unprecedented experience. To err is human because our nature is fallible and our mistakes should not be hidden because they make us learn," stressed this expert who believes that not only countries, but also international organizations, have mistaken.
He specifically referred to the World Health Organization (WHO), which "has done some things poorly or regularly" and the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC), which "also did not act sufficiently in advance."
He has acknowledged, however, that neither of these two organizations received all the necessary information from China. "I don't know if China lied, but I am almost certain that it did not say everything it knew," said Martín Moreno, who believes that the Asian country in turn also did not know the basic aspects of the genesis of the problem.
"There has not been fluid information and it has arrived late for all of us," declared this epidemiologist who also sees it as "indisputable" that in Spain "we are late" and with problems such as the lack of personal protective equipment, tests or ventilators for mechanical respiration. and without strategic reserves. He has also criticized the "hesitations" regarding the recommendation to use the mask that "leaves the population confused", and the way the data is counted.
This expert has asked that an independent evaluation commission be established "to know what was done well, what was done less well, the risks and opportunities for improvement so that when something like this arises, which it will, we are prepared."
