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In dialogue with La Tercera, the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2018, Tasuko Honjo, referred to the discussion on immunity regarding the pandemic by the Covid-19 coronavirus, showing his objections regarding granting immunity passports to the recovered.
When asked about it, he mentioned that he does not think it is a correct measure and that “this is dangerous“
Regarding the effectiveness of a PCR or an antibody, he explained that “the antibody test is more reliable and robust here. It registers positive only when the person is still producing viruses in their body and once they have fully recovered there will be no virus that can be detected by the PCR method. ”
Regarding an antidote, Honjo said that “Generating vaccines against this type of virus that contains the RNA (ribonucleic acid) genome is not easy. We already know about vaccines against influenza or HIV that until now have not been very successful. And it actually takes a long time to develop a good vaccine. I would focus more on treatment, in the initial phase, with the use of drugs used for other viruses, and in the later stage, to avoid cytokine storm, I would recommend treatment with an antibody that is already known and works against to the interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R) to stop the Covid-19-induced cytokine storm. “
Finally, the Nobel Prize winner stated that the effect of the coronavirus could be such, to the level that it would not be strange for a new world order to be generated.
“We cannot stop people’s movements forever just because of the new coronavirus pandemic. I do not expect the outbreak to reverse the tide of globalization. China will have a big role to play. The disease originated in China, but the country will also be the first to recover from it. I cannot say if this will increase Chinese influence or if the world will avoid China, but there is a possibility that the global order will change with the outbreak, “he closed.
