2024-05-01 05:58:00
“We have a population in which immunity to the virus has waned and this increases collective vulnerability to new infections of the Sars-CoV-2 virus”
The new variant would have a mutation of the protein Spikethat the virus Sars-CoV-2 uses to attach to cells and would also not respond to updated versions of vaccines. The website www.bluewin.ch/it writes it.
“We have a population in which immunity to the virus has waned and this increases collective vulnerability to new infections of the Sars-CoV-2 virus,” he observed Thomas A. Russohead of the department of infectious diseases at the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University of Buffalo.
«If I look into my crystal ball – he added – I would say that, considering the various factors at play with the new mutationwe will probably have a new wave or at least an increase in cases and hospitalizations this summer.”
The head of the School of Public Health ofYale UniversityMegan Ralley, reports the latest projections from scientist Jay Weiland, an expert in viral diffusion models, in particular the Covid virus, and observes that they “warn against a new surge in infections”.
A study carried out at Harvard and not yet published would also show not only that the latest vaccines do not protect against the KP.2but that the latter variant would be more resistant to immunity acquired from previous infections.
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