Alexandrova: We have all the tools to end the pandemic in 2022.

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“The world is leaving with high hopes for 2022.

The Secretary-General of the WHO said that we have all the tools to end this pandemic next year. We have a lot of knowledge about the virus. We have vaccines. Antiviral drugs are on the way. We should not ignore them at all, because the virus will need a multifaceted attack. “This was stated by the virologist from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Radostina Alexandrova, to Bulgaria in the Morning.

We are sending for the second year in a row under the sign of Kovid-19. We faced the new options – Delta and Omicron. A booster dose and vaccination of children under 11 have also begun.

“We are sending a very colorful year. The year 2021 was completely marked by vaccines and options. We have come a very long way, starting with the fact that at the end of 2019 and the beginning of last year almost no one believed that this virus “It will come out of China and enter Europe. So in the beginning, people, even scientists, did not believe that the virus would be easily transmitted from person to person. The good news, however, is that this virus was identified very quickly,” he said. Prof. Radostina Alexandrova.

She added that science quickly took on its role and two months after the genome was identified, there were already 20 vaccine prototypes.

“There are questions that we will find out if we have learned the answer. One of them is that we really need to seriously analyze why and how it came about that in less than 20 years a third new coronavirus came to us. We are revolving around the origin of the virus, not because of any conspiracy theories, but because it is very important to understand what contributed to this being a fact and whether we can somehow influence it, “the virologist told Bulgaria ON AIR.

Alexandrova pointed out that if anyone really benefits from pressing the pause button, it is nature itself, because people have become extremely aggressive towards it.

“The biggest question we asked ourselves was probably the question of trust. People discovered science. The fact that we all talked about PCR, vaccines, antibodies, viruses and antigens – is generally not enough. We realized that we have “High medical culture is a matter of national security,” she said.

The virologist explained that the flu is a very serious disease and should not be underestimated.

“The options that cause anxiety, Beta, Gamma, Delta – all of them can also escape to some extent from the immune response. We know that they spread better. There is evidence that they are trying to influence the clinical picture and not in a good direction. “With regard to Omicron, we see that it is spreading very successfully. It can definitely reduce the effect of the immune response that we have already built on disease or vaccine much more successfully. There is still no definite conclusion on how it affects the clinical picture.” , Alexandrova explained.

Prof. Radostina Alexandrova noted that the whole of Europe is entering a new wave of Kovid-19.

“We need to be prepared for the fifth wave. It may be different because of the very rapid spread of the virus, which can make many people sick at the same time. There will always be some part that needs hospital treatment.” which will be a big burden, especially if combined with the flu. We must protect children in all cases, “she said.

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