The Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon, has confirmed this morning the increase in Covid cases, especially in people aged 60 or over that they are “the ones we test the most”, but he has relativized the possibility of a seventh wave indicating that “we are attentive, we are expectant, analyzing the data very well but without getting nervous“. At the moment, he affirms that there has been an increase in hospitalizations, but that admissions to the ICU are very modest. According to Argimon, the day before yesterday there were 40 patients and today 38.
Regarding the increase in figures, the Minister has clarified that “we are not in the situation of December or January. Could a seventh wave arrive? Couldbut we are not at that moment”. Before some voices that assure the arrival of this new pandemic wave, the minister has stated that “no one can predict what will happen because there are two questions that no one can answer, and they are how intense it will be, that is, how many cases per 100,000 inhabitants will there be, and how virulent the variant will be“.
The minister points out that even though “we know much more about this pandemic than two years ago, we still it’s not like the flu, that predictions can be made and vaccines developed for the variants to come. With SARS-Cov2 you still can’t.”
Internalize standardization
Josep Maria Argimon has insisted on the importance of “internalizing normalization”, that is, adopt as habitual a series of behaviors. For example, especially in immunosuppressed people and people of a certain age, wearing a mask indoors.
He also wanted to avoid stressing medical consultations, and explained that “if someone has mild symptoms, it can be personally manage. Do not go to health centers, but stay at home, take an antipyretic if there is some fever, and when the symptoms subside, go out for a few days with a mask and not having contact with fragile people”.
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