“I recommend starting research projects and taking legislative initiatives for this. This will certainly affect a second wave, and not only work against the coronavirus, but also against influenza, for example.”
Catry also made a plea for the automation of data flows, so that all data from hospitals and residential care centers can flow directly to Sciensano, without the care staff having to worry about it.
In his statement, Catry further recalled the decision not to allow visits to residential care centers from mid-March. “The speed with which that happened was good, but the vigor was ultimately not what we expected it to be,” he said.
In the same context, Catry said that a second wave should consider allowing informal caregivers to assist healthcare workers. A graph showing Catry showed that it peaked the number of staff infections for the number of resident infections, indicating that infections came in that way.
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