London, Thanasis Gavos
The coronavirus Omicron variant is not the same disease we had a year ago and the extremely high levels of morbidity and death in the UK are now a thing of the past, one of Britain’s leading scientists, Basil Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford Sir John Bell.
Sir John said that although hospitalizations for the virus in Britain have increased in recent weeks due to the many Omicron cases, the disease “seems to be less severe and many patients spend relatively little time in hospital”.
He added that there are now fewer patients who need oxygen during their hospitalization and the part of the hospitalization has been reduced to three days.
He noted that this situation has stabilized “since we were all vaccinated”.
He emphasized that the British government was not responsible for the killings, but said that maintaining some independence was not the answer.
“The terrible scenes we saw a year ago with intensive care units being full, many people dying prematurely, these are a thing of the past in my view and I think we should be reassured that this will continue,” said Sir John. Bell.
Asked about the government’s decision not to impose strict measures in England, he said that based on the data “the decision of the Minister of Health on where we should go in the next few days is probably fine”.
Meanwhile, East Anglia University professor of medicine Paul Hunter told BBC television that in the end, given that COVID-19 was not going to disappear completely, the confirmed carriers of the virus should be allowed to go smoothly at some point. their daily life.
He estimated that the isolation rules for carriers should be abolished, not yet, but possibly after next Easter, when in his estimation the coronavirus could have started to be treated as a simple cause of cold, so there is no need even the daily case report.
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