The expert told how the coronavirus differs from the flu
Head of the Cell Proliferation Laboratory at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Chumakov called an important difference between coronavirus and influenza.
The flu mutates pretty quickly, which is why every year a new vaccine has to be developed and people vaccinated. But the coronavirus is not susceptible to rapid mutations, which means that you do not have to constantly vaccinate.
According to the scientist, in the future, the coronavirus will not begin to mutate as quickly as the flu, due to the fact that it simply works differently. It has a single genome, so the emergence of a new strain is almost impossible, and this will significantly facilitate the further fight against coronavirus. In this case, the coronavirus vaccine will work for a long time. All this makes it possible to make the assumption that next year the situation with coronavirus in the world will not be as dire as it is now, writes URA.RU.
Earlier, some doctors said that in the end the coronavirus will be the same seasonal illness as the flu and SARS.
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