If various actions or measures, the pandemic from COVID-19 could end this 2022, This was stated on Tuesday by the director of emergencies of the World Health Organization (WHO), Michael Ryan.
In a panel organized by the World Forum in Davos, Ryan stated that the virus will probably never end because those kinds of pathogens “sometimes end up being part of the ecosystem.”
But he opened up hope end the pandemic this 2022: “We have a chance to end the public health emergency this year if we do what we have preached,” he said.
Ryan affirmed that the key is in the equitable distribution of vaccines and medical equipment, or else the tragedy caused by the virus, which has already caused the death of 5.5 million people in the world, will continue.
“What we have to do is get to low levels of incidence with maximum levels of vaccination, so that no one has to die,” Ryan said. “The most important point is this: it is the deaths, it is the hospitalizations, it is the disruption of our social, economic, political systems that is causing this tragedy, not the virus,” he added.
The WHO He has criticized the inequality in access to vaccines that exists between rich and poor countries, and has described it as a moral failure. According to the data, in poor countries less than 10 percent of the population has received the first dose.
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The executive director of Oxfam International, Gabriela Bucher, indicated that there is a “tremendous urgency” to distribute the vaccines more equitably and to increase production. And he stated that the resources to combat the pandemic “are being hoarded by a small number of corporations.”
Public health specialists have warned that the virus is unlikely to be completely eliminated, so it will continue to kill people, albeit to a lesser extent, if it becomes endemic.
On this subject, Ryan gave his opinion regarding the controversy of whether the COVID-19 should be treated as something endemic rather than a pandemic, which entails special measures to curb contagion.
“Endemic malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people. HIV is endemic. Violence in urban centers is endemic. To say that something is endemic does not mean that something is good. To say that something is endemic is to say that it is here to always,” he said.
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