Omicron seems to be much more contagious, but if he jumped at the speed at which he jumped in South Africa, he may be dominant within a month. This was stated by the mathematician Lachezar Tomov to BNT.
Controlling entrants is key. Omicron may be late, but it is much faster, warned Tomov and added that all who are on the second dose should go to the third and those with zero to switch to a second dose.
He pointed out that the new version of COVID-19 suppresses natural immunity much more strongly. The worst possible hypothesis is that Omicron influences vaccination, but Tomov does not believe it. The question is how much hospitalization and mortality will increase from the new option. “It’s time to stop the game of risk that we do – gambling once we get away with the bullet, let’s repeat again, and consider vaccination,” Tomov insisted.
He added that if we want to live modernly, we must take modern means. Lachezar Tomov does not exclude and Bulgarian version of COVID-19 due to the low level of vaccination in our country.
“If we do not take measures against Omicron and if we do not stop thinking only of ourselves, many people will be left alone. When a family is left with one less person, then they will think differently,” Tomov warned.
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according to him the spine of the fourth wave of the coronavirus is not broken. There is too much population to be infected. Even without Omicron, I expected this wave to be long all winter. There has never been such a pandemic wave with such high contagion and mortality. Do not expect miracles, said Lachezar Tomov.
He noted that there should be vaccinations and everyone should be involved in this process without escaping. The health system is the common good, Tomov concluded, referring to the words of Aristotle.
Pulmonologist Prof. Svetlana Velizarova, who is also present at BNT, said that it has already been proven that the new variant of COVID-19 has mutated and found itself in immunocompromised people with HIV or AIDS. Until the virus reaches everyone who has not been ill, it will not stop – this is the natural course. With this low level of vaccination, we will have a fifth, sixth, seventh wave and until we reach the end of the Greek alphabet, she said.
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Omicron mainly attacks young people
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From what Prof. Velizarova sees in children up to school age, it is the parents who infect their children. At an older age, children at school and they pass the virus to each other. In children, the disease is much milder and carry a much smaller viral load, explained Prof. Velizarova.
“There is no way to stop with the Bulgarian folk psychology – we will close, we will open, we will ask for green certificates and so it will continue, because the people around us do not believe that this is the right path and there is no sense of community. the important thing is for me to be well, the other, if he wants, to die “, Prof. Velizarova was categorical.
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She warned that whoever has not contracted the coronavirus will get sick, unless locked up at home for 3-4 years. Even if Omicron does not come in such a large percentage – the virus will infect, we will have a cloth, we will close until it reaches the last careless person, said Prof. Velizarova.
She added that it will be very difficult for the new Minister of Health, because he must continue the line of liberalism, but the new virus hangs over his head and the majority of the population, which is anti-waxing to the point of fanaticism. “If necessary, health will be protected with a dictatorship. More and more anti-vaxers and less and less speakers,” said Prof. Velizarova.
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