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Even immunologist Luke O’Neill is holding his breath when it comes to Christmas.
Her son is in England and she wonders if she will be able to make it home, while her 90-year-old mother-in-law is in an asylum and it is unlikely that she will be able to celebrate with the family.
“We are all in similar situations,” he said, admitting that “it is going to be difficult” but that we are approaching the end of the game, with a vaccine in the new year “if we are lucky.”
“A good analogy is a boxing match,” he said, explaining, “We are starting to win, but we still have to keep our guard up because there could still be a knockout punch.”
With the government guidelines for Christmas to be released today, Professor O’Neill believes that three households will be allowed to meet as long as the requirements for social distancing, hand washing and face covering are met, along with a ventilation. adequate, but cautioned that people should not spend a lot of time together in the day.
“You can’t spend ten hours in a stuffy room playing Trivial Pursuit together because that’s how the virus spreads, ”he said.
The Trinity biochemist maintains a strong sense of optimism, saying that we could look back after this is all over with a sense of pride, telling ourselves that ‘we do protect people’, while still managing to have a Christmas and celebrate in a safe way.
“The hurricane continues to rage, but we have definitely moved forward. If we continue as we are, we can see an end in sight, ”he added, with the FDA in the US and the European Medicines Agency currently evaluating the data.
“What will happen is that the vaccine will eliminate the virus, it will be like the flu and we will not be so afraid. Treatment is now much better in hospitals and that will continue to improve so that in the end it is like any other infection ”.
And after it’s all over, he believes that we can become like certain Asian countries where people wear masks from time to time to avoid viruses like flu.
Irish independent
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