Do not expect the coronavirus to disappear anytime soon – or ever, warns a senior European Union official in a new prediction on the pandemic.
‘It seems more likely that it would stay. It looks very good to people, ”said Andrea Ammon, head of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, in recently published comments. “It would not be the first virus to be with us forever, so it is not an unusual feature for a virus.”
This is likely to be a rather discouraging observation for cordoned off societies. However, Ammon has implied that vaccines, and the mutation of the virus in different variants, will change the nature of the public health crisis that has crippled the world economy and killed millions of people.
“The question is what does this mean in terms of the changes in the virus for the effectiveness of the vaccine,” she said South China Morning Post. ‘It may turn out that it [the new coronavirus changes annually like the seasonal flu], or that it remains stable at some point and that we can use one vaccine for a longer period of time. ”
The deployment of vaccines in the United States and Europe has already been tested by the emergence of several variants, including at least one that’s British officials’ associated with an increased risk of death compared to the original form of the virus. South African officials have plans to use a vaccine developed by Oxford and AstraZeneca because of doubts about whether the vaccine protects against mild infections.
Moderna and Pfizer, the companies that develop vaccines currently approved for use in the US, have acknowledged that the success of their vaccines depends on the variant of the virus. Modern “promotes an emerging candidate for the advancement of people” to strengthen people against the so-called South African variant, company officials said this week.
‘One thing I do want to emphasize is that those [vaccines] which has been tested is extremely effective in preventing hospitalization and severe COVID, which is good news, ”said Anna Durbin, international professor at Johns Hopkins University, this week. “It means we can prevent hospitalizations, and that we can prevent death and severe COVID.”
This observation suggests that since Ammon allows ‘we must be prepared for it to stay with us’, it is the mild infections that may be the most stubborn.