Perhaps the study issued recently at the Institute of Statistics at the Danish University of Copenhagen, which stated, in an attempt to explain the accelerating spread of the Omicron strain, that the new mutation is the best in evading the immunity of those who receive the vaccine, makes us stop at the path of the epidemiological spread of Omicron in Lebanon, in connection with the high number of infections and the impossibility of applying The complete closure and the miserable condition of hospitalization on the one hand, and the fact that the mutation affects immunocompromised people as well, on the other hand, what awaits us?
Regarding the danger of searching in the Omicron files and the studies associated with them, it is possible to stop at information that says that this mutagen includes within it the mutant “Delta”, “Beta”, “Gamma” and “Alpha”, which made some scientists re-light the first hypothesis that adopts the idea The manufactured virus, as long as the Omicron includes non-mutants, which has strengthened their position, and the talk about how the virus was transmitted for the first time, was it through a human or animal biological incubator. In contrast to this hypothesis, there is another opinion of scientists who considered that we are facing the beginning of the end of the epidemic. Yasha Monk, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, indicated that we are about to experience the end of the epidemic as a social phenomenon. Also, the technical director of the Danish Public Health Authority, Tera Grove Krause, said that the distinctive characteristics of the Corona path when infected with the Omicron mutant give hope for the end of the epidemic. But on the other hand, there are no confirmed data on this in light of the constantly emerging mutants, and a phrase can be used by Danny Altman, a professor of immunology at University College London, and one of the most important scientists who studied the course of Corona, where he said: “One of the horrific things in this epidemic is that people They do not believe everything that is said by scientists, because we change our opinions because the target is moving.”
Omicron in Lebanon
Returning to Lebanon, those concerned with medical matters went out in recent days to confirm the seriousness of the situation locally, especially that the hospital sector is in a state of near collapse, and that there is no possibility to absorb any new waves, but the fear of a repeat of last summer’s scenario has become a reality with the high number of injuries, from The vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Nidal Al-Mawla, a specialist in kidney diseases and pressure, explains the path of Omicron in Lebanon in an exclusive interview with “Lebanon 24”, recalling the early stages that the epidemiological development has gone through since the first mutation, as he stops at the idea of the clash between the great countries and contradictory opinions, and the possibility that the virus is biological Or not, as well as confusion in treatment protocols, which explained at the beginning of the spread the significant rise in deaths among doctors who studied the virus and applied treatment tests. Al-Mawla says: “We are facing a virus that left a lot of terror and sorrow, and also changed the economies of the world, until we became faced with one fact, which is that the virus is developing itself, which led to all these mutations.”
Al-Mawla also refers to what the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Firas Al-Abyad, referred to a few days ago when he said that the World Health Organization miscalculated when it indicated that the virus is transmitted through droplets, rather it is transmitted through the air, which is a contradictory issue among the most famous international doctors, “and here We return to asking more questions, and are we back to zero, and will we witness the worst-case scenario for the virus?”
Vaccine efficacy
The Lord talks about relatively mild symptoms of Omicron compared to other mutant, which is confirmed by the World Health Organization, as these symptoms are often similar to the normal “cold”, without pain in the head or pulmonary embolism, while symptoms are present in the “Delta”. It is the most dangerous of the mutators until today. As for the worst in Omicron, according to Al-Mawla, it also affects people who have received vaccines, even with booster doses. Science contradicts its interpretation, but it is certain that vaccinators are the least likely to be at risk of hospitalization, despite the fact that Omicron eludes those with immunity, and this is a fact until now.”
Returning to the beginning of the wave of vaccines, Al-Mawla puts forward a dangerous hypothesis, but it leads to a conclusion that may be positive, and Al-Mawla, who is among the first doctors who was assigned to the airport at the beginning of the pandemic, says: “We do not want to talk about the commercial dispute in vaccines, economic competition, and all that the world witnessed from Madness in the world of speculation at the level of vaccines that have been proposed, but I will talk about an important issue, which is that when countries began to experiment with vaccines on citizens, most of these countries were in a state of stone, and therefore the first booster for the effectiveness of vaccines may be the process of mixing and distancing of course, and it may be This is one of the main reasons for the success of the vaccine in reducing the number of infections in several countries.
So, the conclusion is to return to the fact that prevention is better than a pound of cure, and that all deterrence and protection measures and even vaccinations will not be useful without a self-decision to protect ourselves, and not to mix except in urgent cases, and to follow prevention measures and wear a mask, which are the best ways to prevent madness Corona and its variants.
At the level of vaccination of children, the Lord indicates that he is against giving vaccines to children of a certain age, and senior scholars also express their objection to the vaccination of children.
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