* New Covid-19 variants are likely to keep on emerging until the whole world is vaccinated against the virus, experts warn.
* In low-income countries, only 8.5% of people have received at least one dose of a vaccine, according to data.
* The sharing of vaccinations is not just an altruistic act but a pragmatic one, experts note.
LONDON — New Covid-19 variants are likely to keep on emerging until the globe has been vaccinated against the virus, experts warn, saying that the sharing of vaccines is not just an altruistic act but a pragmatic one.
“Until the whole world is vaccinated, not just rich Western countries, I think we are going to remain in danger of new variants coming along and some of those could be more virulent than omicron,” Dr. Andrew Freedman, an academic in infectious diseases at Cardiff University Medical School, told CNBC on Thursday.
Viruses “tend to become milder” as they evolve, Freedman noted, but he cautioned that this “isn’t always the case.”
“It may well be with future variants that they are even more contagious, they may be milder, but we can’t say that with certainty.”
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2 comments:
We can only wonder whether the above chart will represent reality in as little as, say, two years hence. A new variant(s) could render the current vaccine (upon which the chart is based) all but useless, then it could be back to square one for everybody. This could be far from over.
WNU makes more money than I do, but sometimes I wonder, if he has a brain.
At some point if COVID mutates its spike protein enough, it will no longer bind to ACE2.
There are a finite number permutations of the spoke protein that will bind to ACE2. That number may be large but it is finite.
But keep up the panic porn.
Nice how mutations prevent herd immunity so that our betters can regiment every aspect of our life. Lifetime job security as the upper class without any more work than any tin pot dictator would do.
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