The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in an online press conference, assured this Monday that “There is no magic solution and perhaps there never will be” against the new coronavirus, in reference to alternatives that can disappear this threat forever.
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“Clinical trials give us hope, but this does not necessarily mean that we get an effective vaccine (…). We all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can prevent people from getting it, “he said.
The WHO director’s message was that The approach with which this public health problem has to be addressed has to be the control of the pandemic and not the eradication of the disease.
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“When leaders work closely with the population, this disease can be controlled,” he recalled, emphasizing the need to “contain the new waves” that can occur in countries that have passed the peak by “testing, isolating, treating the sick and their contacts ”.
The infectologist Carlos Álvarez, national coordinator of studies of covid-19 for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), contextualized the words of Tedros when explaining that it is utopian to think of a magic solution to end the threat that this virus has generated.
“The only disease that has been eradicated from the face of the earth has been smallpox and others such as polio or measles have managed to contain or mitigate,” he said.
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Clinical trials give us hope, but this does not necessarily mean that we get an effective vaccine.
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He insisted that In the case of Sars-CoV-2, there will not be a single solution to control the pandemic, but many, such as personal protection measures, self-care, social distance, timely and massive diagnoses. and, in due course, guarantee access to treatments and vaccines.
And in the hypothetical scenario in which an effective vaccine is discovered, that will not be the solution to all problems, says Álvarez.
“The reality is that we have to learn to live with the virus, and to contain it there are multiple measures that depend on the co-responsibility of people, the community, companies and governments,” concluded the expert.
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