Epidemiologist: We have the most disgusting virus in the history of virology

Epidemiologist Paul Gradeck has no doubt: this virus is one of the most disgusting in the history of virology. Worse still than the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, which claimed many lives.

The Delfi portal spoke with the epidemiologist about what it means for Lithuania to enter the red zone on the European COVID-19 map and what caused such jumping morbidity.

The ECDC divides the countries according to the traffic light principle: green, yellow, red and those with a particularly low morbidity situation: black. So do we run the risk of movement restrictions to or from other countries because we enter the red zone?

“The countries of the European Union follow this traffic light principle when establishing quarantine, isolation, entry and exit quarantine. Based on those criteria, EU members can stipulate that, for example, people from red countries should be isolated.

But in parallel, there is a consensus on a European electronic certificate, the so-called vaccine passport, which says that a member state cannot make unilateral decisions that discriminate against all people, whether or not they are vaccinated.

From my personal experience: I come from a country outside the European Union where the incidence is black. But because I have a European digital certificate, that is, a vaccine registered in the European Union in its full mode, I did not have to isolate myself for a certain period of time, because it is recognized that isolation is optional for vaccinated people who come . from a certain country. “

At the same time, the epidemiologist noted: “With the spread of the delta strain, more and more countries choose to impose stricter restrictions even on those who have been vaccinated, since a person can carry the virus in the nasopharynx for some time. This will certainly not be the case all the time, as is the case with black, but it must be tested or isolated over a period of time, not because it does not get sick, but because the virus is naturally cleared from the nasopharynx. . “

When asked what was the main reason for the recent spread of the coronavirus in Lithuania, Gradeck said it was difficult to find the strongest component. However, it is clear that the coronavirus is more prevalent among unvaccinated people.

“The most important message for people who have been vaccinated is that even when they carry the virus, even with the mild symptoms that our vaccine opponents talk about, the vaccine still protects against extremely serious complications, especially in the young.

And the fact that the virus is calling for a vaccine barrier and people are still getting infected just shows that we currently have a virus that, I would say, as far as we know and can trace the history of virology, is the most disgusting in the world. population, even more disgusting than the Spanish flu because of its and the spread is faster, and in more vulnerable groups, especially in the context of these times.

Today, a country in the world without a developed health system is stronger than the United States (USA), which was the most affected by the Spanish flu epidemic when they lived it in 1918.

Today, 99 percent. Countries have a stronger health care system than the US had at the time, but even with such capabilities, we have a virus that is spreading at a slower rate, on a smaller scale, and still at a lower rate. higher mortality rate than that virus. per capita resulted in not receiving an oxygen bed with oxygen supplied from clean containers at positive pressure at that time.

At that time, the best thing you would have received is a nurse who comes once or twice a day and checks your pulse, and then tells the health officer that you can release this bed, “said the epidemiologist visually.

And while vaccines have been developed that provide more protection against the most serious forms of coronavirus and even death, recently there have been reports of the death of several fully vaccinated people. The coronavirus claimed the lives of two vaccinated people in Latvia and one in Greece. The latter man is reported to have no comorbidities that could worsen the condition.

When asked why this could have happened, Mr. Gradeck replied: “This can be explained by the lack of immunity.

We only say that a person has been vaccinated, but we cannot say if they have developed immunity.

In an infectious disease we have a host, a virus, a medium, a vaccine, and a state: receptive or immunized. Only studies that determine the effectiveness of a vaccine can determine how many times that vaccine works.

That efficiency is still around 90% for Pfizer and around 10% for Pfizer. the vaccine does not work.

Of that 10 percent, there may be a variety of reasons why this happened. It is possible that the properties of your body do not allow the development of immunity. As a result, the course of the disease in man could be fatal. This is how people who have not had any comorbidity die from this disease. “