“It will be difficult for us to spend Christmas,” pulmonologist Theodoros Vasilakopoulos told SKAI about the coronavirus, while he opposed a new lockdown like the ones that took place in the previous period. “If there are always negatives, we will end up very difficult, much later, and with a lot of losses. “In order to end, we must acquire immunity and the pandemic must become an endemic,” he explained.
He even stated that “if we were all vaccinated worldwide in 1 month we would end up with the coronavirus, but for that to happen there would have to be a global consensus”.
“As the virus multiplies, so does the risk of mutations.
“About 450,000 new vaccines were made in 1 month, well done, but much less than we need, by that logic we want 4-5 months. The young man who wants to go to the bar was vaccinated, and not the 60-year-old who will go to the ICU “.
“Whatever measure we take is useful, but rapid tests are a measure of little added utility, and teleworking helps, but these measures are essentially a consolation, only vaccination is a real solution and the drugs that will come someday,” he said. .
He explained that the measures reduce the problem, but the only solution is vaccination, the negative rapid test does not completely guarantee us. “Many lockdowns have taken place since the beginning of the pandemic, both in Greece and elsewhere, is the pandemic over? You save time… The only logic is if we will do a lockdown per month so that everyone can be vaccinated this month and as soon as we open we will all be vaccinated. “Once we open again we will experience the same thing a month later.”
As Theodoros Vasilakopoulos pointed out, science has given us the weapon to protect ourselves not 100%, but at an astonishing percentage. “It’s like having pneumonia and the doctor saying ‘you have to take antibiotics’ and answering ‘I will not save myself’.”
Vaccine and enclosed spaces
“The vaccine gives us defensive weapons (antibodies – cells that kill a virus) if there are inexperienced attackers in our area with infinite viral load (or because time has passed since the vaccine or they had health problems and do not have a perfect immune response) the vaccinated can get stuck despite the vaccination. The effectiveness of the vaccine increases dramatically the less the virus circulates in the environment. “If only I enter a place where only people with coronavirus circulate, I will be more at risk,” he noted.
“When we said long ago that there is likely to be so much increase in people in need of coronavirus hospitalization that would deprive other people of hospital space, some said there was no such thing. In Greece, minorities have always had the power to impose their views. their. “Someone who has suffered from arthritis and has to have arthroplasty, for example, must suffer the consequences of the selfishness of people who are not vaccinated.”
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