Health Expert: "We look at 2022 'until Covid is completed
This will take time "before enough people are starting to get the vaccine to enhance immunity."
While cities reopen, there is a sense that normality is not too far around the corner. Do not be fooled. Mr. Soumya Swaminathan, Head of Science of the World Health Organization in Geneva said Tuesday, speaking to reporters during a virtual meeting organized by the United Nations Foundation, we're still in the middle of it -this. "The way people illustrate that is that, in January, you have vaccines for the world and that things will return to normal," said the journalist Swaminathan. But that's not how it works. "Read about his prediction realistic for how long it will last - and protect your health and the health of others, do not miss this essential list ofWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
Dr. Swaminathan said that it will last a "long time coming"
"We are looking at least 2022 before enough people start to get the vaccine to enhance immunity. So for a long time to come, we must maintain the same type of measures currently in place with a physical distancing , masking and respiratory hygiene, "said Swaminathan." They will have to continue after the vaccine starts to be deployed, because we need 60% to 70% of the population to have immunity before starting to see a dramatic reduction in the transmission of this virus, "said Swaminathan." We know not how long these vaccines protect for - it's the other big question mark: what is the duration of immunity ? And it is possible that you need a boost. "
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Bill Gates agrees with this assessment
Swaminathan's remarks come the same week an interview Bill Gates gaveNew York Magazine. "In the best case, two years from that time, you would be, for some particularly health things, ideally back to where you were at the beginning of 2020," said the guru of technology and philanthropist, credited by some with predicting the pandemic in a Ted talk 2015 "This is to say that we are lucky enough that many of these vaccines work, including those that are expensive enough enough costs so that we can accumulating manufacturing. and if we get the factories and we get the money to buy it for the whole world .... in this case, in 2021, the pandemic and down in 2022, the global pandemic ends. could we sit here two years from now and say, "Okay, during this period, not only did we stop the pandemic; We have also restored the immunization and catch the children who were missed? Can we restore the work of malaria and HIV work that was lost to the pandemic? "
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