Many European countries overwhelmed by the record number of Omicron cases are already giving up on massive testing and cutting quarantine times.
. Similar steps are under consideration in neighboring Portugal and in Britain.
Sánchez said the changes should not happen before the Omicron surge is over, but officials need to start shaping the post-pandemic world now: “We are doing our homework, anticipating scenarios.”Our species lived through the Spanish flu, polio, ebola, SARS, and swine flu. How have humans gotten themselves out of pandemics in the past? And how might we get out of this one?
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has advised countries to transition to more routine handling of COVID-19 after the acute phase of the pandemic is over. The agency said in a statement that more EU states in addition to Spain will want to adopt “a more long-term, sustainable surveillance approach.”With the fast-spreading but less virulent Omicron variant, the coronavirus may finally be cutting humanity a little slack.
COVID-19 “must be treated like the rest of illnesses,” Trenche said, adding that “normalized attention” by health professionals would help reduce delays in treatment ofThe public also needs to come to terms with the idea that some deaths from COVID-19 “will be inevitable,” Tranche said. The strategy has been nicknamed “flu-ization” of COVID-19 by Spanish media, although officials say that the systems for influenza will need to be adapted significantly to the coronavirus.
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