2023-08-31 13:58:22
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the new subtype of coronavirus, BA.2.86, can cause infection in people who have previously had or been vaccinated against COVID-19, and urged vulnerable people to wear masks in public.
Health experts and scientists pointed out that Covid-19 disease “cannot be treated as a seasonal virus like influenza,” explaining that the world is exposed to a dangerous wave of infection with the emerging corona virus, after the increase in cases resulting from the infection of the new “Omicron” mutants during the summer that approached. To expire, according to a report by the British newspaper “Financial Times”.
They explained that with the return of employees and workers from their annual vacations, and the start of the new school year, governments and vaccine makers are preparing to launch new campaigns of vaccination with enhanced vaccines, to confront the most prevalent mutants, to support the immunity of the most vulnerable groups of the elderly and those with chronic and serious diseases.
And virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Angela Rasmussen, confirmed that “all bets are off” if a more transmissible variant emerges from Omicron, which has been the dominant strain for nearly two years.
And she continued, “We will start to see increasing cases … and it does not have to happen only in the winter season, when the conditions are very good for transmission.”
For his part, Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Adam Kucharski, said that there was a “surprisingly stable” pattern in the past year, indicating that this pattern does not necessarily continue.
Kucharski stated that in the period 2020-2021, before vaccines were widely introduced, if a strain looked “bad in one spot, it will be bad everywhere,” but now that different populations are exposed to various strains, it is difficult to predict the severity of the variants. new when crossing into new areas.
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