Catalan epidemiologists compare the situation that lives now the Asian giant with which Catalonia lived in July 2020, two months after home confinement, when he had to re-confine (this time around the perimeter) the segrià region and the Barcelona metropolitan area in view of the increase in infections.
For the first time in months, the covid-19 scientific advisory committee in Catalonia met this Monday at the dawn of the epidemiological situation in the Asian giant. The body advocates increase epidemiological surveillance from possible new variants Let them surge. But the experts ask above all to go further in the fourth doses, whose coverage in Spain and Catalonia is still low.
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In Catalonia, it is from 55% among those over 60 years of age, an “improvable” percentage, As recognized this Monday by the Secretary of Public Health, Carmen Cabezas, on Catalunya Radio. “Vaccination coverage was very good in Spain, but the perception has been promoted that the pandemic is over. Vaccination coverage right now is not optimal: it is very important improve the fourth doses”, points on his part Joan Cayla, Member of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE). Caylà recalls that, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), in the first half of 2022 some 20,000 people due to covid-19, a virus that remains “deadlier than the flu.”
In addition, doctors also ask to make more use of antivirals to treat covid-19 in the most serious patients admitted to hospitals and ucis. Two are currently used: the remdesivir and the paxlovid. The use of the latter is less, since it has many interactions with other drugs. But experts stress that paxlovid is being used less than it shouldeven though it is highly effective especially in the first five days from the onset of symptoms and greatly decreases the serious illness.