The "visionary" office of Iván Redondo was not employed in the Covid until there were 15,000 deaths

The National Office for Prospective and Long-Term Country Strategy – led by Iván Redondo, Pedro Sánchez’s guru and head of the ‘Spain 2050 Plan’ – did not get to work on the health and economic crisis of the Covid until the pandemic was already a reality with thousands of dead and infected. Despite the fact that this body, which depends directly on the Presidency of the Government, is in charge of analyzing the risks and prospects for Spain, it was not fully constituted until March 30 of last year. That day, the entire country was already confined under the state of alarm imposed by Sánchez. The records of the Ministry of Health then more than reflected the severity of the virus, which added 85,195 confirmed cases and 7,340 officially recognized deaths. However, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) later raised that figure to 11,278 deaths from Covid identified and 4,147 per suspect.In a battery of written questions registered by Vox in the Congress of Deputies, the Government admitted that, despite Since the Office was set up on January 14, 2020, it was not until “between March 18 and 30” when “after an exhaustive recruitment process, its members joined the staff. From Moncloa, “the Office has worked fundamentally on two fronts.” “First, to assist the Government in managing the pandemic, preparing several studies in which epidemiological, social, and economic scenarios of the SARS-CoV are constructed and analyzed. -two; recommendations for de-escalation are provided; and some of the challenges and opportunities that could emerge in the coming years are examined. ‘“Second, the Office has been working on the long-term National Strategy, which will be ready before the end of the year. The architecture of the study has been designed, the academic literature has been examined, and the work of debate and analysis has begun. “3 reports In its questions, Vox also requested information from the Executive on the” reports or documents prepared “by the National Prospective Office and Long-Term Country Strategy “since the beginning of the legislature and how many of these reports and documents dealt with epidemic risks that the Nation should face”, as well as “what strategy was recommended.” From Moncloa it was admitted: “In In its three weeks of existence, the Office has prepared three studies (with an approximate length of 30,000 words; about 110 pages) in which possible epidemiological, social, and economic scenarios of SARS-CoV-2 are constructed and analyzed until December 2021 , and examines some issues related to the de-escalation strategy and the position that Spain could adopt with respect to certain trends that are beginning to be detected in the international horizon. “Likewise, the Office’s development of” a health security strategy “was ruled out, despite the threat of future pandemics. “This issue does not fall within the scope of competence”, rejected the Government, although it did ensure that “the health dimension is widely reflected in the National Strategy that is being prepared.” ‘Spain 2050 Plan’ The National Office for Prospective and Country Strategy a Long Term -which is responsible for Diego Rubio, a direct collaborator of Iván Redondo- has been in charge of designing the ‘Spain 2050 Plan’, which Pedro Sánchez presented this week in a propaganda event.The report, which has had the contributions of one hundred professors and experts from different disciplines, aims to anticipate the challenges of Spain for the coming decades in areas such as the labor market or the digital transition.