Two experts faced with the approach of winter, In an interview with Diário de Notícias, in terms of epidemics, expressed their concerns about what was to come. In the latter, although they point out that Europe is going to “take advantage” of Covid-19, that is, “by creating a new preparedness and surveillance agency in the HERA health area, which will certainly require more monitoring of new threats. , where these new variants are included”, this ‘dream’ Neither had any doubt that it was not over yet.
I’d say we’re going to experience what’s being called a “triple pandemic,” a pandemic with covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus. Covid will gradually weaken their immune system. With new variants of covid, there may be some. A decrease in effectiveness against infection, therefore, leads to an increase in the number of cases, an increase in the number of emergency rooms and, predictably, an increase in the severity of hospitalizations in wards and intensive care. In addition, necessarily and unfortunately, the death rate will increase, and there is nothing that we do not see slowly in other countries,” revealed doctor Philip Froes.
So there will be steps to be taken and they need to be taken soon, i.e. speeding up vaccination against influenza and covid-19, they are asking.
“We need to take some essential steps: one of them is to quickly scale up vaccinations against Covid and flu – starting with the elderly and extending to as many people as possible – and we need to greatly improve surveillance systems. (. ..) In what contexts can non-pharmacological interventions such as face masks be used again? We need to urgently review that,” he stressed.
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