After 2 years in the pandemic, new subvariants of the virus continue to appear. Do they require special treatment? We can talk about the beginning of the end of this pandemic, like any infectious disease. And this viral infection goes through a cycle and I firmly believe in the reduction and disappearance of the number of patients. This can be seen from the WHO data, which said that in all regions of the world there is a reduction in the number of cases “, said the expert on infectious diseases Prof. Georgi Popov in the studio of” Bulgaria in the Morning “on Bulgaria ON Air.
According to him, this is not quite so, because there is no longer this strict accountability of patients.
There are many patients, but this helps to achieve the global immunity that we all sought at the beginning of the pandemic, but then it was too wrong to talk about it. We seem to be in control of the situation, but I have a sense of purpose leaving this lighter option – Omicron, to cover as much of the population as possible in order to create herd immunity “, added Prof. Popov.
According to him, it is too naive to believe that the virus is genetically depleted and there will be no new options.
“Like any viral disease – the goal of the coronavirus is not to kill more people, but to spread more and live longer. We went through a period when we had more severe options – Delta, when there were more deaths cases. Now with Omicron and its sub-variants the disease is much more contagious and many more people are ill, including those who have been ill, but it is milder.“, the expert stressed.
He said that a few days ago he met with a patient who had had the coronavirus 3 times.
“Currently, 8 drugs for the treatment of Kovid-19 are allowed in Bulgaria. These are the antiviral drugs remdesivir. And monoclonal antibodies – this is the thing that works the most at the moment. We are looking forward to the drug Paxlovid. This disease. “The virus acts very differently on people. There is a very different effect on people – there is damage to people – there is damage to the psyche, there is damage to the lungs. The kidneys are vulnerable, as well as the liver. We often have heart damage.” , explained Prof. Georgi Popov.
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