{"id":51780,"date":"2022-07-17T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/covid-case-count-irrelevant-now-dak\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:31:57","slug":"covid-case-count-irrelevant-now-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51780","title":{"rendered":"Covid case count irrelevant now: DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>\u2018Causes unnecessary public panic\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, July 17:<\/em><\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday said Covid-19 case counts have lost relevance as they don\u2019t reflect the same as they used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCovid case numbers cause unnecessary panic and fear among people,\u201d said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hassan said early in the pandemic daily case count was used as a metric because that time a rise in cases inevitably led to increase in hospitalization and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut that has changed now,\u201d he said adding with widespread immunity in the general population due to vaccination and natural immunity, most of the infections are mild and do not require hospitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAK President said we have reached a point in the pandemic where we no longer need to identify and manage every single case of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is time for us to stop worrying about cases and shift our focus on hospitalization which is miniscule at this point in time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRelying on case numbers as the metric to decide mitigations will trap us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nisar said Covid-19 has entered into an endemic stage and the rise and fall in cases is going to be a routine process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has become yet another infection joining many other diseases that we have learned to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said we need to deal Covid the way we do other endemic viruses such as the flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are not publicly reporting daily case count of influenza, nor do we pivot what we are doing on a dime when cases reach some arbitrary number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to take a similar approach for Covid, track case counts internally and alert public only on hospitalization and death,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Causes unnecessary public panic\u2019 Srinagar, July 17: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday said Covid-19 case counts have lost relevance as they don\u2019t reflect the same as they used to. \u201cCovid case numbers cause unnecessary panic and fear among people,\u201d said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan. Dr Hassan said early in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}