Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus
The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized the idea of mass immunity from coronavirus. General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated this, RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
“Bulk immunity is a concept that is used during vaccination where the population can be protected from the virus (…). For example, for mass immunity against measles, it is necessary to vaccinate 95 percent of the population. The remaining five percent will be protected on the assumption that measles will not spread among vaccinated people, ”he said.
Thus, massive immunity is achieved not through infection, but through vaccination. That is why such a strategy is incorrect both from a scientific and ethical point of view, Gebreyesus emphasized.
An outbreak of pneumonia COVID-19 caused by a novel coronavirus was first recorded in December 2019 in Wuhan. On March 11, WHO announced that the situation could be characterized as a pandemic.
