Why the omicron strain does not mean the end of the covid epidemic
Unvaccinated people serve as a “springboard for the evolution of the coronavirus,” and the change in the virus will not stop on the “omicron” variant, Vladimir Chulanov, chief freelance infectious disease specialist of the Ministry of HEALTH, said in an interview with RBC. The chance that this will happen in the body of a vaccinated person is much lower. Therefore, only vaccination and effective drugs can prevent the evolution of SARS-CoV-2.
The reputation of "omicron" as a mild virus is exaggerated - it only occurs easily in those vaccinated against COVID, Chumakov said. According to doctors who visited South Africa to study the "omicron", intensive care units there are filled with unvaccinated people.Whether the chances of getting sick with “omicron” are equal in vaccinated and unvaccinated, how the role of children in the spread of COVID has changed - read in Chulanov’s interview on RBC.
Chulanov - RBC: It is naive to think that the evolution of COVID will stop on the omicron Society