The Minister of Health made a last-minute statement that brings to the attention of Romanians one of the most serious problems facing Romania at the moment, and this is because he is talking about the Coronavirus pandemic and the effects that are now seen in our country due to They.
The Minister of Health says that Romania could be affected by a constant circulation of the Coronavirus with the influenza virus, and this could cause problems because humanity no longer has the immunity it used to have against the flu, all because of the lack of circulation of influenza viruses in the last 2 /3 years with preventive measures against Coroanvirus.
"1/1000 inhabitants is a very low incidence, the cumulative incidence. The pandemic, or the effects of the pandemic, I think this is a correct definition, stopped due to a natural evolution of an emerging virus, such as this one, and the fact that after an evolution of 3 years, the world has a resistance to infection, or it becomes infected and causes trivial forms of the disease, not forms of the disease that pose special problems.
What can put us in difficulty is a combination, the continuation of the evolution with the Coronavirus, and a combination with the influenza virus, which is likely to circulate more intensively this year. We have the example of the southern hemisphere, the winter that just ended there brought a much higher number of flu cases. Influenza viruses no longer circulated due to the measures taken for the Coronavirus.
After a period of 2/3 years of lack of circulation, people's immunity is lower, we haven't actually had the flu in recent years, and then the interest in the flu vaccination decreased, and from this point of view, surprises could appear. I hope that we have the best possible protection at the level of the risk categories, in particular, and that the rest of the population gets vaccinated in the usual way, as it has done maybe in other years.
An interest in flu vaccination is developing in the area that is not included in the program, and this should be encouraged. We must decide together with the European Commission, and the vaccine suppliers, a formula that will allow, on the one hand, for the improved vaccines to arrive, and all those who want to be vaccinated, because this is actually the problem, to can be vaccinated.
We have to find the solution to drastically reduce the quantities of vaccines that we have contracted, because to give hundreds of millions of euros for vaccines that we will no longer use seems immoral to me, first of all. This is unacceptable in a period of major economic crisis, and if we end up destroying many millions of vaccine doses that we do not use, but which we consistently pay for, then people's confidence in vaccination can be seriously affected."
