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The Corona virus shows the potential to always come back, especially when we relax and allow it to find a new foothold in a population that is still a long way from any herd immunity, Srdja Jankovic told TV Pink, answering the question of whether we can wait for a new one. corona wave in Serbia.
– We must constantly protect ourselves, but we must also live life – says Janković.
When asked what is expected when a virus collides with seasonal flu, the immunologist emphasizes that there are mitigating circumstances: the flu vaccine, as well as the epidemiological measures that are in force due to the Kovida-19 pandemic.
– Therefore, we can hope that prevention against the corona virus will also work against seasonal flu – says Janković.
And those who have recovered can continue transmitting Kovid-19
According to research by Chinese scientists, even those who have recovered from kovid can transmit it for another month and a half and a half after recovery. Immunologist Janković says this is known from early Chinese work, but fortunately these are exceptions, not the rule.
– Precisely because it was an exception, it did not affect the determination of the duration of self-isolation. Therefore, it is a general measure that even those who have been infected by the corona virus must always be protected. We do not know how long immunity lasts and that is why a person who has passed Kovid-19 should not be considered absolutely safe in the sense of the impossibility of being infected again or of the virus remaining in the body, says Janković. Again, it confirms that the virus can be detected in some people even a few weeks after recovery, and this depends on the strength of the immunity and numerous other factors.
A pandemic, he says, will not end on its own and we cannot rely on a natural process.
– Thinking that everything will pass by itself and surrender means sacrificing a large number of lives, which is ethically completely unacceptable. That is why there is no alternative to implementing everything within our reach, that is, measures to reduce the number of people who will be infected and, therefore, those who will be more seriously ill or will die – says the immunologist.
He points out that he is never asked to stop living, but to give life to the awareness that we are in the moment of one of the most dangerous pandemics that humanity has ever suffered and in the midst of a situation that is new to all of us.
– I don’t think there are many who remember the 1918 pandemic, which was for most of us before we were born, and that is why this is a new situation we have to live with – says the immunologist.
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