When can we get back to normal life? “It will be counted in several months”, according to this expert (video)

The coronavirus in Belgium has forced the citizens of our country to confine themselves for more than a month now. A crisis that has been going on for a very long time, too much for some who wonder, moreover, when will we be able to resume a normal life.

“It won’t be very fast“, replied Marius Gilbert, epidemiologist at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and member of the group of experts in charge of the” exit strategy “, during the program C’est pas tous les jours dimanche (RTL -TVI). “It will be counted in several months. There are two instruments that are going to be necessary to allow us to return more or less to a life before, it is first the vaccine and then, therapeutic options that would work well. For example, if you have symptoms, you take medication and it prevents 80-90% of people from getting severe cases. There is a lot of work that is done to assess the effectiveness of this type of means“.

“On must look at things long term“

When would this drug arrive? “It’s impossible to say“, said Marius Gilbert.”Research is progressing as much as possible … To come back to the question of duration: in the absence of these means, the only thing that can be done is to prevent transmission. This is the whole purpose of the strategy which will be spread over several months because we are obliged to have a cautious strategy because we cannot count on these therapeutic solutions until we have them. Carefully, we have to look at things long term“.

Marius Gilbert finally evokes the track of collective immunity: “It is not that there is none, it is that it is weak (less than 5%). This track, we put it aside and we target the therapeutic options“.

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