Vaccines are still the ultimate weapon against Covid-19.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING – The Chinese Center for Infectious Diseases Prevention (CDC) equates the human relationship with the corona virus as the cartoon ‘Tom and Jerry’. “The relationship between humans and viruses is like Tom and Jerry,” said CDC Director Gao Fu as quoted by local media, Monday (22/3).
He considers that vaccines are still the ultimate weapon against viruses because humans live with viruses on this planet. COVID-19 is the seventh type of corona virus that infects humans.
The largest type of virus is genetic recombination, which, according to Gao, means that new types of coronavirus will emerge in the future so that humans will face more attacks from the corona virus. So far, there is no evidence to suggest that this new type of corona virus will disappear and it is very possible to coexist with humans, such as flu symptoms.
Meanwhile, CDC Chief Scientist Wu Zunyou argues that 70 to 80 percent of people who get the vaccine will provide community immunity so that the pandemic can end. According to him, everyone needs to get the right to vaccinate, so he called on developed countries to help developing countries meet these needs. Positive cases of COVID-19 worldwide have reached 120 million with a death toll of 2.7 million.
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