While political leaders talk of an eventual transformation of the coronavirus pandemic into endemic, from the World Health Organization (WHO) warn that this It won’t necessarily be good news nor see the light at the end of the tunnel.
This was stated this Tuesday by the director of WHO Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan, who recalled that the objective is “that no one has to die” from COVID-19. “People talk about pandemic versus endemic, but Malaria is endemic, as is HIV, killing hundreds of thousands of people., so endemic is not a good thing it just means it’s here forever“, has explained.
As he specified, “what we have to reach is low levels of incidence of the disease, with a maximum of people vaccinated and no one has to die from this“That will be the end of the health emergency, the end of the pandemic,” Ryan said, in a talk with experts from the pharmaceutical sector and civil society organized by the World Economic Forum.
Ryan, who is leading the WHO team fighting to end the pandemic, has stressed that the world will not be able to end the virus as it has become a pandemic and “will become part of the ecosystem”, but that the international health emergency caused by COVID-19 can be left behind.
“The matter is deaths and hospitalizations, is the alteration of our social, economic and political life, this is the tragedy. The virus is just a vehicle, what we have to consider is how society has reacted to it, with inequalities in access to health care and social inequality,” said Ryan.
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