Dr. Alejandro Macías warned that “never has an infectious disease been transmitted with the speed that the omicron variant does ”.
For this reason, he estimated that “at this rate in Mexico, half of the population will be infected in the following weeks,” in a calculation similar to that made by the WHO on infections in the European Union.
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COVID-19: Never has an infectious disease been transmitted with the speed that the Omicron variant does. At this rate in Mexico, half of the population will be infected in the following weeks.
– Alejandro Macias (@doctormacias) January 11, 2022
Through Twitter, the expert also showed that 5 days of isolation is almost as effective like 7 and 10 days in an infected person.
This, following in the morning conference the undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell said that already it is analyzed to reduce the period of disability due to Covid to 5 days, in case it is confirmed that the time in which it can be infected is less than other variants.
Check out this isolation model for people with Covid 19 Omicron variant (UK health services). Counting from the first day of symptoms, 5 days of isolation is almost as effective as 7 and 10 days (counting hours in which an infectious person is released). pic.twitter.com/uKF5kB2u1e
– Alejandro Macias (@doctormacias) January 11, 2022
Regarding omicron, previously Dr. Macías stated in an interview that “we haven’t seen anything yet, is going to enter with great force, we are going to have 15 very intense days“.
He indicated that “it is a disease that Fortunately, people do not get very serious, but if there are no vaccinated, hospitals can still be saturatedWe have not seen anything yet, it is entering the country in a surprising way ”.
And he called that “whoever can work at home to do so, we must avoid riots, ventilate closed spaces, the use of the mask and if you have access to a quick test, do it, it will help you ”.
He also explained that that omicron presence in Mexico will not end at the same time throughout the country, but it will be by regions. In the Mexico City The entire month of January is going to be up and towards the end of the month, February and March, it will enter into a balanced condition, he assured.
“We will have in January 2022 the most intense month of cases of the pandemic,” he anticipated.
Covid: In Mexico, the omicron variant is entering with surprising speed and synchronicity in almost the entire territory. We will have in January 2022 the most intense month of cases of the pandemic.
– Alejandro Macias (@doctormacias) January 10, 2022
