Professor Noridge Medical School of the University of Eastern England Paul Hunter said that in the future COVID-19 will be just another “cold”. This is stated in the article published in The Spectator magazine.
According to the British professor, SARS-COV-2 will not go anywhere and is likely to be repeatedly infected by humanity. In addition, he believes that after the abolition of quarantine, the daily increase in the number of ills in the UK soon began to fall.
Hunter predicted that the world would not be able to achieve collective immunity to coronavirus, however, the balance would be found between immunity and infections. According to the results of the study, the symptoms of COVID-19 will gradually approach the fact that they are observed in the diseased coronavirus in a slight form. So, now the strain “Delta” most often manifests itself pain in the throat and runny nose.
“New strains are fraught with problems – they are either much contagious, or bypassing the existing immunity. However, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the strain” Delta “can be the end point of the virus,” Hunter believes.
Therefore, the professor believes that the worst part of the pandemic is already behind – at least in the UK. However, the population in any case will require revaccination.
Earlier, director of the National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N. F. Gamalei Alexander Ginzburg stated that in the future, Coronavirus will become the same managed disease as the flu, since vaccines have already developed to combat it. He stressed that there will be adequate ways to deal with infection, which will be suppressed and turning into a vaccinated.