The idea of the majority since the first phase of the pandemic has always been that catchin addition to having a complete guideline of vaccination, they were a strong enough shield to deal with coming waves of the virus. However, the new subvariants of omicron are taking care of disassemble everything.
Currently, there have already been many experts who have warned that we are in a very different stage and before a very different virus from the one we met in 2019. Hence, many have chosen to rename the disease caused by the current coronavirus as covid-22. Less lethal than its predecessor if you are vaccinated, but yes extremely contagious and much more capable of provoking reinfections.
The increase in reinfections is worrying. Many begin to wonder if getting infected these weeks means lasting immunity like before or if, on the contrary, after contagion they will be exposed to contracting the disease again just leaving her behind.
The answer was recently given Anthony Faucisenior adviser to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, on matters related to the covid pandemic.
After contagion, Fauci explains, there would be something like a grace period: “Usually immediately after being infected and until one month afteryou’re pretty much protected because of the immune response.”
The irruption of BA.5 has changed all the rules. In Fauci’s words, “Most of the time, the protection lasts a few months. But if someone was infected several months ago, the protection given to them against BA.5 vanishes. And being in the seventh month of the year, most of people who have not received a booster this year have a decreased immunity“.
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This is happening, in the eyes of Biden’s adviser, because the coronavirus is evolving in the same way that all similar viruses with which we have lived until now and that they have been responsible for giving us colds on numerous occasions throughout our lives.
Fauci implies that, from now on, the logical thing is that we are more exposed to reinfections by coronavirus than before and in shorter periods of time, but perhaps these new waves are more similar to catarrhal or flu processes than what we saw in the first waves.
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