According to World Health Organization (OMS)infections by coronavirus have risen a 30% in the last two weeks. The EMA and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control consider that people over 60 years of age and those who belong to the vulnerable situation, whatever their age, should receive a new dose.
The virologist and researcher of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York has attended to Antenna 3 News from El Escorial (Madrid) on the current situation in the fight against the pandemic.
Garcia-Sastre ensures that “in China there has been very little vaccination and confinement every time the virus has appeared and they can no longer contain it that way.” He considers and believes that “the worst place right now where there is going to be more possibility of new variants is going to be China”.
The place that will suffer the most from the new variants
The virologist highlights that China “is a place where there is less immunity because they have not let the virus in. There comes a time when you can no longer contain it, not even with all the measures you use, the power for two years that the virus enters sooner or later early”.
García-Sastre on the new variants and vaccines
“We are in a moment that is very interesting, the new vaccines that are more adapted to omicron they are already being produced and it is possible that they will already be able to be vaccinated this fall, for vulnerable people it is good to have immunity right now, “says the co-director of Mount Sinai.
“So there’s this balance between what is needed right now. Whether to wait until the fall for a vaccine that’s more in sync with variants now, or whether you have low enough immunity to be vulnerable again, and how there are fewer mitigation measures.” , the virus can circulate more and you are more likely to get infected,” Add.
How long will the pandemic last?
Regarding the duration of the pandemicAdolfo García-Sastre assures the Vicente Valles that “the virus is going to stay with us, that is clear. The question is how many cases are going to lead to hospitalization and severe disease. It is becoming less and less due to the acquisition of immunity, which is already very heterogeneous among people “.
“In Spain we are better, but it is true that immunity is low, new variants are coming and we have to keep looking forward. That must be controlled with vaccination, I hope that in the autumn vaccines closer to those that are circulating right now will enter,” he said. finished.
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