In the context of vaccination against the Covid, a question that arises is the following: when will our life be able to regain a little normality?
In recent days, there has been a lot of talk about vaccines. Are there enough? When can we be vaccinated? When will we achieve collective immunity?
To date, only the first members of the medical and nursing staff have been vaccinated at the end of December in Luxembourg. On Wednesday, mobile vaccination teams will start working in retirement homes.
In the context of the vaccination against Covid, the question which arises is the following: when will our life be able to regain a little normality? We asked it to virologist Thomas Dentzer from the Ministry of Health. He is part of the government’s Covid crisis unit.
“Back to other diseases: such a virus is present in us for years, but the impact that we currently have, will become minimal. If we are very optimistic, I am basically still optimistic, so as a virologist , I would say that if we vaccinate a lot of people, and the majority of people are vaccinated in Northern Europe, then we can say that we can perhaps have a relatively normal summer this summer, where several measures will no longer be appropriate. . If a lot of people are vaccinated and if the situation allows it then. This means that it will gradually get better, then we can lift more and more measures. Even if the virus arises again here or there and several people are sick , who have not been vaccinated or whatever. But then that will play less of a role for public health. And we hope that perhaps other drugs or other vaccines will come on the market which will then also prevent the ‘we recontract the virus. The virus will one day be eradicated, as for smallpox or polio for example. This is the optimal scenario that could unfold. But as the Directorate of Health, we obviously have to go to the worst-case scenario, and say what it will be if no one gets vaccinated, what will happen then and how things will continue. And there the answer is that the only choice will be to continue as we are now: restrictions, measures and masks, whatever we want to get rid of. “
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