TRIBUNPALU.COM – Since the outbreak from China at the end of 2019, Covid-19 continues to expand until officially the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to it as pandemic global.
However, almost a year pandemic Covid-19 This is taking place the number of people infected worldwide has reached 50 million.
In fact, until now there are more than a dozen candidates the Covid-19 vaccine still in the testing phase, some have nearly completed phase 3 or the final stages of clinical trials.
The higher the number of Covid-19 infections, a number of countries have also reintroduced it lockdown, after recording an increase in the number of cases.
Although various strategies and policies have been implemented, a number scientist and health experts think it is too limited to stop the rate of infection caused by the new corona virus, SARS-CoV-2.
“All of our interventions are focused on cutting off viral transmission routes to control the spread of pathogens,” said Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal. The Lancet as quoted from BBC, Thursday (12/11/2020).
Seeing the current condition of Covid-19, Horton thinks it should not be considered as pandemic, but as’ I don’t know ‘.
Then, what is sindemi and how should Covid-19 be handled?
Sindemi is an acronym that comes from the word synergy and pandemic. That is, diseases like Covid-19 cannot stand alone.
On the one hand there is the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the virus that causes Covid-19 and on the other hand there is a series of diseases that someone has already contracted. These two elements interact with each other in the context of inequality social which is deep.
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