Experts assessed the message about the threat of the emergence of COVID-26 and COVID-32

Humanity in the future may face a new CORONAVIRUS pandemic, although its name will not necessarily be COVID-26 or COVID-32. Larisa Popovich, DIRECTOR of the Institute for HEALTH Economics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, told RBC about this.

Earlier, an American scientist reported that if you do not understand the origin of the coronavirus, humanity will face new waves of the COVID-26 and COVID-32 pandemics.

“Of course it could be. And 26 and 32 in this case are conditional numbers, ”Popovich said.

She believes that in order to fight the disease, it is necessary to understand its nature, to know the source and ways of infection. In her opinion, the scientific community needs to do enough analytical work to understand how covid-19 works together . “This is a big scientific challenge, a big challenge for modern science,” she added.

Alexander Chepurnov, a leading researcher at the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, is also convinced of the need to “understand from all sides, understand where the virus came from.”