Prof. Alexandrova: The coronavirus continues to mutate – Diseases

“We know enough to be confident that there are products that have proven efficacy and safety data, we have to see if they will be allowed. It is clear to all of us that we cannot know everything about any medical device in a few months.” Thus, Professor Radostina Alexandrova, a virologist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, commented on the vaccines developed against Covid-19.

She said that the coronavirus continued to mutate, but said: “Currently, there is no mutation among the most common mutations that compromises the effect of any of the developed vaccines.”

According to Professor Alexandrova, there is a problem of trust in vaccines around the world: “The vaccine is a fact and people should know that these vaccine prototypes have been worked on for years. The speed of Covid-19 vaccines should not worry “. Science fulfills its main mission in an extreme situation of reacting quickly ”.

Vaccines have always been the hope of humanity, said the virologist. She insisted that only mass vaccination, at least 65-70% of people, could achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus.

Borissov promised to help doctors know everything about the vaccine.

According to Professor Alexandrova, everyone must behave responsibly in the conditions of a pandemic and a growing number of infected people: “We do not have the right to unfounded optimism, but we have the right to common sense based on scientific evidence and only together can we have success”.