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Spain Calls for Debate to Consider Covid as Endemic, Like Flu
By Thomas Gualtieri - 11 januari 2022 09:51 CET
Spain is calling on Europe to debate the possibility that Covid-19 can now be treated as an endemic illness, setting a model to monitor its evolution akin to the one used for flu.
“It’s a necessary debate; Science has given us the answer to protect ourselves,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in interview yesterday with radio station Cadena Ser, adding that the virus’s lethality has been dropping since the beginning of the pandemic. “We have to evaluate the evolution of covid from pandemic to an endemic illness,” he said.
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s acting prime minister - Source: Bloomberg
Sanchez’s comments come as omicron, the latest variant dominating large swathes of Europe, has seen lower rates of hospitalizations and deaths than previous strains even as infections have soared.
Sanchez said there may be reasons now, “with precaution,” to assess the disease with different parameters than those used so far.
The Spanish government has been working on a new monitoring approach in the last weeks and Health Minister Carolina Darias has brought the matter up with her European counterparts, said Sanchez.
Spain reported almost 692,000 new cases in the last seven days, with 13.4% of hospital beds used for Covid patients, according to the Health Ministry data. That compares with 13.8% a year earlier, when the number of recorded weekly cases was just above 115,000.
Other sources:
With cases on the rise, Spain adapts influenza surveillance system to Covid-19
Spain PM Urges Europe to Treat COVID as More 'Endemic' Illness
Treat Covid like the flu and return to normal without masks or restrictions, urge Spanish family doctors
Spain's 'end-demic' approach to Omicron: Just treat it like the flu
https://www.thelocal.es/20220111/sp...-whether-covid-19-should-be-treated-like-flu/
WHO warns against treating Covid-19 like flu
Will Covid-19 become less dangerous as it evolves?