Surprisingly, at the conference “Science and Parliament: Together against the Epidemic” organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, experts on behalf of science attended, as the President and Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences spoke. 444. Although it would have been interesting for politicians to think, but at least for someone who regularly attends executive court meetings to find out why they decided, for example, to organize tens of thousands of peace marches in the aggravating phase of the epidemic.
From the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tamas Freund, to the Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who received the closing remarks, the scientific community is happy to help decision-makers in the fight. This, at least in this conference, was not to thank the decision makers.
At the beginning of the fourth wave, with the epidemiological recommendations made in August, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, among other things, measured whether the elderly were protected at the level of antibodies or not, and those who did not receive them were quickly vaccinated. At mass events and indoor places where there is a lot. He found deaf ears at the wheel. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has since repeated this in October, with little success. In this call, too, great emphasis is placed on the need to fight the publishers of pseudo-scientific and unscientific news in order to increase vaccination.
It was also revealed at the conference that professionals also suffer from a lack of information. In Cecilia Muller’s absence, her deputy, Ursulia Sorgan, gave a lecture on the pandemic. What biochemist Palaz Serkadi said in the roundtable discussion at the end of the event was very interesting, it shows how much data the National Center for Public Health has that they don’t have access to. But it would be very good to establish a relationship that would allow field researchers to access this information as well, and that would broaden professional scientific expectations, and scientific research more broadly. Unfortunately, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer is no longer around at the time, so it is unknown if there will be such cooperation or if NNK will keep the data.
And it turned out that the wastewater test data used as a predictor in Hungary correlated well with infection data two weeks later, and even with hospital numbers. This was not discovered by NNK, but by Linde’s gas distributor. It turns out that they were called, why the weekly data was not published on the site. When asked again at NNK why this was important, the birds said they knew which hospital in the city would need more oxygen and handled deliveries that way.
