Covid-19: Last minute of the coronavirus in Spain, live | Sánchez announces that the Government will control the price of antigen tests | Society

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The relationship of humans with the coronavirus is constantly changing. The protocols are becoming more lax and the restrictions also, as more people have had contact with it and that vaccines have protected the majority of the population from suffering a serious disease. The next step will be to start treating covid in a way that is more similar to what is done with the flu: without counting each case, without testing for the slightest symptom. Observe it as one more respiratory disease. The Spanish health authorities have been working on this transition for months and are finalizing a plan to gradually abandon the universal surveillance of the covid and move to one called “sentinel”.

It is the one that has been used for years for the flu. Instead of reporting every case of covid that is detected in the country, something unsustainable in the long term, a group of primary school doctors or health centers, combined with hospitals, will be chosen in a strategic way, to act as witnesses. The aim is to create a statistically significant sample distributed at key points, as is done with surveys, which allows us to calculate how the disease spreads, the mildest and the most serious, but not by means of exhaustive counts, but with extrapolations.

For Paul linde

Photo: Booster vaccination campaign against covid and influenza in the Valencian Community, last November. (Ana Escobar / Efe)

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