The fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is already in Mexico, since the health crisis is not over yet, confirmed UNAM specialists, who added that while it will gradually end, decreases are being seen in terms of severity, hospitalizations and deaths.
In a report on the fifth wave, the UNAM Gazette highlights this Friday the 203 percent increase in cases compared to the last week, after this Thursday the federal Ministry of Health (SSa) reported 8,024 new cases, as well like 42 deaths a day versus 20 a day the previous week.
Similarly, he highlighted that Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Mexico City, State of Mexico, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Tabasco, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Puebla and Sonora are the entities with the most active cases.
However, according to Alejandro Macías, a member of the University Commission for the Attention of the Coronavirus Emergency, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the arrival of the fifth wave does not mean that we have done something wrong so that they return to increase infections, pointing out that this is something natural due to the constant appearance of new variants.
He added that, although the use of face masks and social distancing are effective in reducing the impact of the fifth wave, “the phenomenon will occur in any way”, since the BA12-1 and BA4BA5 subvariants of the omicron have already entered our country. , that they had not been presented as much in Mexico, and that they are “attacking” people without any of the vaccines.
“You have to remember that vaccination is not to avoid getting sick, but basically to avoid serious illness and not die. Although the disease can happen to anyone, especially those who are very mobile and are in crowds of people without face masks, the risk of complications is related to the conditions inherent to it and to the conditions of vaccination or non-vaccination”, highlighted Macías, who was in charge of the strategy against influenza AH1N1 during the 2009 pandemic.
Just in this tenor, the researcher of the UNAM Biotechnology Institute, Susana López Charretón, highlighted the need not to trust and continue with preventive measures and care, since she pointed out that although the fourth wave presented high numbers of infections, the vaccines helped that these were not reflected in hospitalizations and deaths.
“Despite the fact that we had a very high fourth wave of infections, hospital occupancy and deaths dropped a lot. However, you should not trust yourself, because it does not mean that bad luck will not touch you. That we have a one percent hospital occupancy does not mean that it will not touch us. We should not trust each other, it is important to maintain care, and if we do it during this time and the one that is already coming to us from October of influenza, we would have much fewer health problems” he stressed.
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Likewise, by pointing out that the “pandemic is not going to end like turning a light switch on and off. It will be a gradual process”, López Charretón affirmed that this “fading” has been observed with the latest waves and the declines in serious cases, pointing out that it is best to avoid going to closed places, as well as the use of face masks in all places. public, as he pointed out that there is still a high risk of contagion.
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