There is a big gap between the "feeling" among the population that the pandemic is over and what hospitals are experiencing these days. This is what the director of the Catalan Health Institute, Yolanda Lejardi, has stated in an interview with RAC1, and has assured that "the feeling that we have already passed the worst of the pandemic is absolutely confronted with reality". The fifth wave, she said, puts efforts to normalise medical care "at risk".