Doesn’t vaccination stop the fourth wave?
Although vaccination has been effective in reducing mortality and hospitalizations, it does not prevent infections from continuing. This is happening, for example, in European countries that have even higher immunization coverage.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the low vaccination rate in some areas and the relaxation of prevention measures are the main causes of the spike in infections in Europe.
“We are at another critical point of rebound in the pandemic,” Hans Kluge, head of the WHO regional office from the European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, told the media. “Europe is once again at the epicenter of the pandemic, where we were a year ago,” he insisted last week.
In the case of Mexico, the researcher from the Department of Health of the UAM-Xochimilco, Rafael Bojalil Parra, commented that it cannot be called a “goal achieved”, as referred to by the federal government at the end of October, when 47% of the population She is fully vaccinated and those under 18 are not counted in the plan.
“It is very likely that we will have a fourth wave, mainly at the expense of those under 40 years of age, due to the variations, due to the winter itself, that normally respiratory infections are more frequent and intense in and due to the lack of vaccination to smaller populations, and also all the parties, the crowd on November 1 without healthy distance, and the Christmas parties, all of this will most likely cause another big wave in mid-January ”, he told Political Expansion.
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