“Should the omicron turn out to be a milder version than before, anti-vaccines will feel justified in how good it is that they haven’t asked for the vaccine, as here’s this mild version, you just had to wait. Apparently, it will be said that the 3 million people who have not been vaccinated so far will now be infected and immune, ”said virologist Miklós Rusvai to Ripost. “They seem to be right. In reality, however, only the vaccine has provided protection against even more deaths from the virus in the past year, ”says Miklós Rusvai.
“Vaccinations began in January and millions of doses were extinguished in a year. This must have saved quite a few lives. This will be a positive benefit for the production of the vaccine. We went through this one year with the vaccine, ”Rusvai said. In addition, it is far from certain that the omicron variant is much milder than the delta, which is now dominant in Hungary.
Anti-vaccinators often say that “whoever has to die should die,” they still do not ask for a vaccine, but Miklós Rusvai comments: “I do not agree with that. Many of the victims of the coronavirus passed away prematurely, and by immunizing them, their lives would have been more likely to be saved. He who does not vaccinate himself is in much greater danger. ”
The professor recalls that the omicron has not yet been shown to be milder than the delta variant. “Not only have we saved people over the past year with vaccination, vaccination is still needed in the next period. As long as it is proven that omicron is indeed less pathogenic, people should continue to be immunized because this is still the most effective defense against the virus, and only then can we save even more lives and avoid more serious complications of the disease, ”he says. Professor Rusvai.
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