There was so much desire to move on that it could seem that the pandemic was already extinct. Nothing is further from reality.
The news coming to us from China is not positive. The Asian giant is experiencing a new phase since it buried its ‘zero Covid’ policy and cases and hospital admissions have skyrocketed to levels never seen before in the country.
The world holds its breath remembering the fateful beginnings in Wuhan and the governments of half the planet are already taking action on the matter. Countries such as Spain, Italy or France have imposed new restrictions at airports for passengers of the Asian giant and Sweden, which chairs the Council of the European Union, has convened a meeting to decide whether to establish common restrictions throughout the Old Continent.
However, at this point and after two very tough years in the health, social and economic fields, we should flee irresponsible fatalism and stick to the data offered by science and its experts.
For example, the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has already ruled out that the increase in cases in China will affect the epidemiological situation in Europe mainly due to the high immunity in Europe. . Injected vaccines and natural immunization rates have nothing to do with those in China. Here we are infinitely more prepared for a new challenge from the coronavirus.
Even more so if we take into account that all that has been analyzed so far are underscores of Ómicron, a tremendously contagious variant but much less lethal than the initial one: they are BA.5.2 (with 35 percent of cases), BF.7 (24 percent) , the BQ.1 (18 percent), the BA.2.75 (5 percent), the XBB (4 percent) and the BA.2 (duo). In this sense, Europe is exhaustive: no new variant has been detected as such, therefore, everything that is on the table -to date- is perfectly identified. We are not in March 2020.
And most importantly, we are not in that black scenario because we have the vaccine. The landscape changed when the older population started getting vaccinated. The virus has continued to circulate, the infections have multiplied, yet the intensive care units are no longer saturated or threaten to be saturated with this particular virus. We’ll have to wait until February when the flu wave arrives (like every year) and the hospitals fill up again (like every year).
Therefore, if the vaccine works and thanks to it we have been living for months as we always have – interacting, working in person, travelling, etc. – the strategy can only be to focus again on the vaccine. The fourth dose is available to the entire population, without PRIVATE appointmentin three points in Mallorca: the Espai Francesc Quetglas, in Palma, the Modular Quarter General Luque in Inca and the Covid Express point in Manacor.
Maximum caution, common sense and vaccinations.
