British infectiousist, director of the Oxford Group on the development of the vaccine professor Andrew Pollard called the achievement of collective immunity in the population impossible in the conditions of circulation “Delta” -Stam COVID-19. He told about this by the British Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, his words leads the newspaper The Guardian.
The problem, according to him, is that Delta will be indulge until absolutely the entire population is vaccinated, because only then the virus will cease to exist in society.
“The problem is that this virus is not king. If 95% of the population is vaccinated against measles, then the virus cannot be transmitted in the population. The” Delta “version will still infect those people who vaccinated. This means that it means that Anyone who is not vaccinated at some point will meet the virus, “said Pollard.
At the same time, he does not believe that the additional “booster” dose of vaccines may be needed. According to him, despite the fact that the level of antibodies obtained after vaccination is falling over time, the human immune system “remembers the vaccine decades and is able to provide a certain level of protection of the body.
Earlier, the epidemiologist Eduard Shunkov spoke about the emergence of new, more aggressive strains of coronavirus in southern countries. He explained that such strains makes ultraviolet. According to him, when entering the body, the virus makes it more than its copies, which depletes resources. All this together increases the toxicity of coronavirus.