To get out of the pandemic for good, months of work between vaccines and communication are required
A group of 400 experts from 112 countries around the world have developed a plan to permanently exit the Covid-19 pandemic . If implemented in the coming months, touching on various aspects such as vaccines , communication, citizen trust and the fight against fake news , it could finally take us out of the global emergency .
The 57 recommendations divided into six main intervention areas were published in the journal Nature : communication, health systems, vaccination, prevention, treatment and inequalities. The work, in which Italy also participated with the Universities of Cassino and Cattolica in Rome, was led by the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona.
Sars -CoV-2 continues to circulate giving rise to new mutations after 630 million cases and 6.5 million confirmed deaths worldwide, without considering all patients with other diseases who have suffered delays in care and those who have had the effects of Long Covid . The situation was aggravated by the spread of false information about the disease and the vaccines themselves.
The researchers engaged in extensive consultations in order to develop a global consensus, arriving at a list of 57 recommendations . Among those with the highest consensus scores are: the adoption of strategies that involve the whole society, with a multi-disciplinary approach, the coordination between the various ministries at the level of the individual governments and the large-scale adoption of vaccines together with other preventive measures.
Only six of these indications had more than 5% disagreement including using additional economic incentives to overcome hesitation over vaccines and symptom-only diagnoses in settings with little access to more reliable diagnostic tests.
- Covid exit strategy, almost 400 experts write the plan (ansa.it)
