The decrease in mortality from COVID-19 will not occur due to the evolution of the virus, but due to the development of partial immunity in humans to the coronavirus. Skoltech professor Georgy Bazykin told RIA Novosti such a condition for reducing fatalities.
“Reducing lethality is not in the best interest of the virus. And this will happen due to the fact that people will acquire partial immunity to it, ”the expert said. According to him, the immunity acquired for one variant of the virus is likely to protect.
“Although it may be a little worse from the variant of the virus that will walk in a year,” – said the scientist. He noted that a vaccine against any variant of the SARS-Cov2 virus will protect a person, at least from a severe course of the disease with future variants.
Bazykin stressed that during vaccination, the immune system trains to notice the Wuhan variant of COVID-19 and, most likely, will be able to notice other strains of the coronavirus.
The expert explained that the immune system does not perceive different strains as different objects. “The virus is evolving, and it needs to understand that what has appeared is still the same object,” Bazykin concluded.
On June 24, it was reported that Moscow and St. Petersburg recorded the maximum number of deaths due to coronavirus per day. In the capital, 92 people died per day due to COVID-19, in St. Petersburg – 99. A day earlier, a record for mortality was also set in these cities. Then 93 patients with coronavirus died in St. Petersburg, and 88 in Moscow.
