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We can’t plan a fully liberated vacation this year yet, he says. Erdei Anna immunologist in an interview with Népszava. The professor of the Department of Immunology at Eötvös Loránd University, a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, justifies all this by saying that due to the new mutants of the coronavirus, mainly the British variant, approximately 85-90 percent of the population one would have to be vaccinated to achieve widespread protection.
The specialist knows that vaccination of children, who make up twenty percent of the population, can only start in the autumn at the earliest.
Even if vaccination of youngsters begins in May, their protection will develop in mid-summer at the earliest after their second vaccination. That’s why mask use, distance, and regular hand washing are expected to stay with us until the end of the year, says Anna Erdei.
Thanks to the vaccines we are using now, our lungs are mainly protected against the coronavirus, which does not cover the mucosal surface of the upper respiratory tract in direct contact with the outside world.
Once the virus has been transmitted through the mouth and nose, the infection gate protection will be provided by new vaccines currently being developed. They are expected to be applied in the form of an aerosol, adds the immunologist.
Anna Erdei also raises the question that if an effective antivirus spray can be developed, it could easily be essential in itself.
If we prevent the virus from multiplying in the upper respiratory tract and then moving down from there and infecting the lungs, there is no need for additional protection.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has already spoken in a recent interview with Kossuth Radio that this year we can have a free summer thanks to the vaccination program. It is already certain that VOLT and Balaton Sound will definitely fall behind the bigger summer festivals, but the smaller festivals can still survive, according to István Márta, president of the Festival Association.
Based on past experience, the spread of the virus may start to slow down in mid to late April, and maybe we can breathe sometime in the summer: János Szlávik, the chief infectologist at Central South Pest Hospital, spoke about this at the end of March.
(Cover image: Huszti István / Index)
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