An increase in the number of vaccinated can prevent the appearance of even more dangerous strains of coronavirus, otherwise the occurrence of a new infection is not excluded capable of circulating the protection that vaccinations provide. Such an opinion director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases of the US Anthony Fauci expressed on Friday in an interview with the USA Today newspaper.
“When the overwhelming majority of the population is vaccinated – we do not know what the threshold (the required percentage of the vaccinated population) is, the virus will disappear, we will no longer have to worry about it, at least in this country. If this does not happen, you have There will be a sluggish infection that goes into autumn will overlap in the flu in winter and then will return in the spring again, “said Faucci.
“As for the unvocked, which say:” I don’t care, I am young, healthy, even if I deal, it is statistically unlikely that the consequences will be serious. “If you lived in a vacuum, then such an approach would be good. But You do not live in vacuo. You live in society. If you become a means of transmitting the virus from you to someone else, then you help to distribute the virus, “the American specialist continued.
“There is a firm conviction: the virus cannot mutate if it is not reproduced. If you allow the virus freely and on an ongoing basis to reproduce in society, it will mutate. Now many coronavirus mutations are not relevant in functional terms, but time from Time You get mutations, such as Delta, which cause the appearance of a new virus version. In the case of “Delta” we have a virus that extends much faster. What happens if during months and months you will allow the virus to reproduce: hypothetically possible not guaranteed, but hypothetically it is possible that we could get an option that will escape from the protection that vaccines give, “added Faucci.