Future pandemics could be "more lethal" than the current "crisis linked to Covid-19". Professor Sarah Gilbert is convinced of this, in the topic of researchers who developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The watchword, therefore, is a renewed impulse to research, to prevent the progress made to date from being lost.
“This will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives - added Gilbert - And the truth is that the next one could be worse. It could be more contagious, or more lethal, or both. We cannot allow a situation in which we have been through everything we have been through and then discover that the enormous economic losses we have suffered mean that there are still no funds to prepare for the pandemic ”.
She hopes, then, that the rapid progress observed in the provision of vaccines and medicines during the pandemic will become the norm.
"There was no reason why a universal flu vaccine could not be developed to eliminate the threat of flu," he said.
As for Omicron, according to Gilbert the vaccines could be "less effective", and therefore "people should be cautious until more is known".
(Unioneonline / vl)
