Pavlakis: Restrictions now – Vaccines are not enough to close schools, nightclubs

He proposed restrictive measures such as closing schools and nightclubs the researcher in the USA George Pavlakis Speaking on SKAI TV and the show “Simera”, he warned that the combination of the Delta and Omicron mutations of the coronavirus does not stop with anything other than the restriction of human contacts.

“At this moment, it would be wise and very good to close schools, for example, to introduce certain restrictions. “Everything that is happening now will save ten or hundreds of times more cases in January,” he stressed.

He estimated that if, for example, the schools are closed, 1,500 to 2,000 cases will be cut per day and that is why “someone should take it more seriously now, with the knowledge that we have that Omicron does not stop with anything”.

Duplicate messages are wrong

The researcher explained that any societies that do not try to stop the number of cases will be “punished” by the virus.

He added that messages should not be sent to the society that “everything is fine”, “we will all go to Ermou together to shop and then get stuck in the” absolute New Year’s Eve “and in the ski resorts”.

Because cases are now a key indicator

In this context, Mr. Pavlakis stressed that there is one last chance to do something more drastic before Christmas. He stressed that now the main indicator for the course of the pandemic is the number of cases and not the ICU or the deaths, as “there we have lost the game”.

If the cases do not fall, no work is done, he stressed and explained that depending on the behavior of the society, the cases that already show a declining trend can be reduced now but a “big tsunami” is expected in January as a result of the holiday season that “Greece ‘ “He is ‘proud’ that everything will be open and nothing will be done to mitigate the wave of infections.”

There may be more than 25,000 dead by Easter

Mr. Pavlakis reiterated that the situation at the moment is critical and that if the situation of last year is repeated, the pandemic wave will reach Easter and the death toll may exceed 25,000.

Vaccines are not enough – WHO said so

The researcher expressed his satisfaction for the rate of vaccinations in our country, however, he pointed out that the WHO itself in its announcement states that vaccines are not enough to stop the pandemic wave.

With Omicron, he added, there are no vaccinated or unvaccinated. Vaccinated people are not 90% at risk of developing ICUs but can be infected without symptoms or with minimal and transmit the virus to others.

For the third dose, she stressed that it is not known at this time how long its effect will last.

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