Despite the fact that some specialists consider that the peak of infections of the third wave of Covid in Argentina would arrive this week, the Ministry of Health confirmed that, for now, vaccinations are not required against coronavirus. In addition, the portfolio denied that in this health context the disease can be considered an “endemic”.
The definitions were in charge of the Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado, in an evaluation of the current epidemiological context that day by day reveals record numbers of motorized infections by the omicron and Delta variants.
“The endemic did not arrive”
“There are still too many daily cases to be able to say that the virus is endemic”, defined the official and explained what would be the conditions that the pandemic should have to lower its category.
Endemic viruses “do not generate such significant spikes, and yet we continue to have a significant number of daily cases,” he said during an interview by Futurock. “The endemic did not arrive”, sentenced.
A disease becomes endemic when society begins to live with it, it becomes seasonal, severe cases decrease and the virus allows prediction of its behavior. “Besides, we have to see that no new variant appears”Tirado added.
“The mandatory vaccination is not justified”
“We know that the virus is going to become endemic at some point, but now it is still a pandemic,” he confirmed and considered that the action that would make it possible to make that leap is vaccination against Covid.
In this regard, the official highlighted that 95 percent of those over 18 years of age received a dose of the vaccines and that 75 percent have the complete schedule. In this context, Tirado maintained, “would not justify compulsory vaccination”. “In any case, we would have to think about it for another time,” he clarified.
Luis Cámera: “In the next few days the curve will begin to break”
For its part, the clinician and government adviser, Luis Cámera, predicted that in this week will be the “maximum peak” of cases of infected with coronavirus in the country and calculated that will go down “throughout February”.
“We are in the week of the maximum peak of cases in Argentina, in the next few days the curve will begin to break, although the movement of tourists may complicate it and delay it a bit, but this week should be the peak with about 140 thousand cases, descending throughout February, ”said the doctor.
Faced with this scenario, he considered that the number of infected could decrease quickly or slowly, but he leaned towards this second option because “People’s behavior is in favor of the virus, which is what scares me”.
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