Covid new buss word:'Flu-ization'
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'Flu-ization': Why Omicron is causing some countries to treat COVID like the flu
Spain, the U.K., Ireland and South Africa now treating COVID-19 as an "endemic" disease like HIV, tuberculosis or influenza
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The U.K., Switzerland, Portugal and Ireland have all announced similar policies in line with the Spanish example. In South Africa, which discovered the Omicron variant, health officials are now predicting that COVID-19 has basically run its course.
“I think we’ve reached a turning point in this pandemic. What we need to do is learn to live with the virus and get back to as much of a normal society as is possible,” prominent South African vaccine allergist Shabir Madhi told NPR last week .
I see that the provinces are already starting to adapt to the new reality..
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“I think we’ve reached a turning point in this pandemic. What we need to do is learn to live with the virus and get back to as much of a normal society as is possible,” prominent South African vaccine allergist Shabir Madhi told NPR last week .
On Friday, Canada saw its first glimmers of a “flu-ization” policy when B.C. announced that it was suspending contact tracing and urging most people with symptoms to simply stay home until they felt better.
“We cannot eliminate all risk, and I think that’s something we need to understand and accept,” said Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry . She added that the province will henceforth be approaching COVID-19 “much more like how we manage influenza.”
https://nationalpost.com/health/flu-...d-like-the-flu