The director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Dr Anthony Fauci, has warned of the emergence of a new mutate from the Corona virus during the coming winter.
And he added, during his speech at the USC Annenberg Center for the Press, that we shouldn’t be surprised by the emergence of a new mutation that is more dangerous than its predecessors, which may be able to bypass the immune response we have achieved, either. by infection. or vaccines, according to a report published by the network.CNBC“.
Fauci stressed the need not to “abandon caution” because there is always the risk of slightly increasing the risk of spreading the infection in the winter months, stressing that it cannot be definitively said that we are “completely closed with the epidemic. “.
The report notes that the average number of corona-related deaths over the past week in the United States is 323, up from 1000-2500 death rates in late February and March, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Fauci recalled the summer of 2021, when the United States saw a decline in Corona data, but last winter saw the emergence of the mutated Omicron, which returned to spread in America.
CDC data shows that 81% of them are infected with the Omicron mutant.
Fauci fears that any new mutator may be able to bypass the immunity we have acquired in the last period, especially since the recent mutations were less effective than the first.
And it seems these fears aren’t just in the United States, as a report released by Reuters warns Europe will face a new corona wave with the advent of cold weather, while public health experts warn that non-receipt of vaccines and confusion their available types will probably limit receiving the activator doses.
WHO officials said this week that scientists are monitoring hundreds of new forms of omicron.
Data recently released by the organization showed cases in the European Union reached 1.5 million last week, an 8% increase over the previous week, despite
Significant drop in exams. Globally, infections continue to decline.
And the number of injured people admitted to hospitals in many countries of the 27-nation bloc, as well as in Great Britain, in recent weeks.
