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Experts: COVID-19 Will Resemble Common Cold by Spring 2022
2021-09-28
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[LI] Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the creator of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, asserts that COVID-19 is unlikely to mutate into a deadlier variant and will eventually end up as a common cold.

Cutting down fears of a more deadly new variant, she said that viruses tend to "become less virulent as they circulate" through the population, Daily Mail reported.
"There is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of SARS-CoV-2", as "there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be a really infectious virus", Gilbert was quoted as saying.

...SARS-CoV-2 will eventually become like the coronaviruses which circulate widely and cause the common cold, Gilbert said.

"We already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually SARS-CoV-2 will become one of those," said Gilbert, while speaking at a seminar of the Royal Society of Medicine

While this is good news, it must be tempered by the reality that public health officials are now used to both the limelight and copious funding.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  
Captain Kirk: How much longer will the pandemic last?

Bones: Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a politician!
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-09-28 13:06  

#4  Can we move Covid topics from Opinion to Politics?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2021-09-28 11:07  

#3  viruses tend to "become less virulent as they circulate"

Because they learn to not kill the host?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-28 08:14  

#2  Yea, well - unless our pals "the scientists" at Wuhan release a new version.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-28 03:53  

#1  What will become of Big Pharma and political crisis farming? COVID must continue, or surely we will all DIE !
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-28 03:45  

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