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This week, several countries are receiving their first coronary vaccines. The vaccines will provide immunity to the virus, but it is currently unknown if it reduces the risk of infection.
Professor David Heymann, head of the WHO advisory group, says that one should simply prepare for the coronavirus to exist forever.
– All this you hear about group immunity, and that infectivity will be reduced if enough people are immune, it is a misunderstanding. It appears that the fate of the coronavirus is that it will become an endemic virus and continue to mutate in human cells, Heymann tells The Guardian.
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An endemic is a disease that appears constantly in certain areas.
– The world is fragile
Mike Ryan, director of the WHO emergency program, agrees with Heymann.
– The virus is likely to become an endemic virus, forever posing a kind of threat. But with a global vaccination program, that threat can be kept low, he says.
Ryan believes that the coronavirus will not be remembered as “that virus”, although the pandemic has left its mark in all corners of the world.
It also says that the coronavirus has a relatively low death rate compared to other pandemics, and that we should view the virus as a wake-up call.
– The virus has shown that the world is fragile. If there is one thing we should take away from the corona pandemic, it is that we should now prepare for something bigger.
FHI: – It is quite possible
The malaria virus is an example of a virus that is endemic in some areas. The other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS, are also considered endemic.
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The chief physician of the National Institute of Public Health, Siri Feruglio, tells TV 2 that the coronavirus may also become an endemic disease.
– It is very possible that covid-19 will become endemic, as several of the other coronaviruses have become. But it is still too early to say what effect the vaccine will have on the disease and whether it will be able to eradicate it or drastically reduce it, says Feruglio.
Mutated virus
In recent weeks, several countries have introduced entry bans from the UK, after a new mutated coronavirus, called VOC 202012 / O1, spread in the country.
Three new cases of mutated coronavirus detected in Norway
On December 21, the Norwegian government also stopped all direct flights from the UK, with the aim of preventing the VOC variant from spreading to Norway.
On Sunday, however, FHI confirmed that two cases of the mutated variant had been detected in Norway. On Tuesday, FHI writes that three more cases of the virus have been detected.
All those infected arrived in Norway from the UK just before Christmas.
– It is hoped that this variant will be detected in more people, and we also expect new cases in the future in Norway. The new variant of the virus is now widespread in parts of the UK and it is therefore not surprising that travelers from these areas are infected with this variant of the virus, says department director Vold.
The VOC variant is supposed to be more contagious than ordinary coronavirus, but according to FHI it does not appear to give an increased risk of severe disease, nor is there any indication that the coronary vaccine has any effect against the mutated virus.
