The virus that causes covid-19, the SARS-CoV-2“He came to stay and, unless a very different variant appears, which forces once again the confinement and collapse of hospitals, it will become another and joins the respiratory virus group of autumn and winter colds“.
This is explained by the scientist and specialist in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Genetics, Vincenzo Sorianowho argues that “the pandemic is subsiding, fortunately, and the end of the tunnel is already in sight because diagnosed cases and severe cases requiring hospitalization are decreasing globally”, thanks to vaccination.
“It is very difficult, almost impossible, for a very different variant of the coronavirus to appear, escape everything, be much more virulent and block hospitals again,” adds this researcher and lecturer, who currently heads the Medical Center of the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) and is vice-dean of its Faculty of Health.
With his eyes on autumn and winter, he understands that it will be a year of covid-19 “much better than the first two and, even if from a medical point of view, other things will take over”, The fight against covid- 19 “is on track and its impact will be less and less. It is predictable.”
THERE WILL BE NO PANDEMIC
He stresses, however, that “there will be small bursts of infections and other types of viruses and bacteria will be present”, as in the case of ebolawhich “is having a small outbreak in West Africa, or the monkeypoxwhich in four months has generated 65,000 confirmed cases in the world “, but stresses that” there will not be a pandemic in the sense of covid-19 or HIV (AIDS) because we have vaccines and antivirals “.
Monkeypox or the rebirth of Ebola are triggers of infections on a planet where “8 billion people live and, in many places, there is a lot of contact with animal reserves, which have their own viruses and can jump. periodically to the human species “. he says.
Regarding the fourth dose of the covid-19 vaccine, which the autonomous communities begin to inoculate tomorrow, Monday, in people over the age of 80 and in people with serious underlying diseases, he claims that its update with the Ómicron variant is It was a success, as he appreciates being vaccinated, at the same time, with the flu.
THE DOSE OF BOOSTER FOR UNDER 60 YEARS IS DISCUSSIBLE
Soriano, who was also an advisor to the World Health Organization, assures that, at present, the medical scientific evidence in favor of the fourth dose that benefits people under 60, who have already received the three, is “questionable. “first doses and who do not have a serious underlying disease, nor are transplanted, diabetic or obese.
“It should also be demonstrated – he adds – that between the ages of 50 and 60 without any pathologies at risk, the fourth dose provides a benefit, which has not been proven and, under 50, even less”.
It also ensures that “immunity against covid-19 is temporary” and, therefore, “the vaccine and its booster doses are not that of the hepatitis B or tetanus vaccine”, but rather “looks more like that of the flu, which protects more partially and a booster dose is necessary ”.
GLOBAL IMMUNITY, AT THE MOMENT NO
On the possibility of selecting global immunity with universal vaccines, he explains that “viruses have a great biological diversity and, with a single vaccine, it is very difficult to find a panacea” that protects against all variants. It happened with smallpox and little else. Even with polio, type 2 was eradicated, but not type 1. “
“I wish we had a way to select a global immunity, but, for now, it doesn’t seem like it will happen in the short term”, so “we have to play with vaccines adapted to what is currently circulating”, concludes this specialist.
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