nik_killthemall έγραψε: ↑09 Ιαν 2022, 16:52
ST48410 έγραψε: ↑09 Ιαν 2022, 16:42
nik_killthemall έγραψε: ↑09 Ιαν 2022, 16:34
2:06 :
I think we have to remember that vaccines were not tested for the prevention of infection, they were tested for the prevention of mild to moderate disease.
Αουτς !
Ναι. Για αυτό έγραψα παραπάνω για σανό. Ωστόσο το video είναι εντυπωσιακό. Ο άνθρωπος δηλώνει αβεβαιότητα και έλλειψη στοιχείων για ένα σωρό θέματα τα οποία οι πολιτικοί και εμείς εδώ ήμασταν σίγουροι ότι ήταν ξεκαθαρισμένα.
Και αυτός που παίρνει τη συνέντευξη κάνει πολύ καλή δουλειά. Όχι σαν τους εδώ γλύφτες.
Οντως πολυ καλη συνεντευξη καθομαι και την ακουω (Jerome Hahn Kim is Director General of the International Vaccine Institute).
Βασικά ο μόνος τρόπος για να καταλάβει κάποιος τι παίζει με κορονοϊο και εμβόλια ειναι απλά να θεωρήσει πως η Ελλάδα καθε πληροφορια σχετικα με αυτην δεν εχει θεση στο υπαρκτο μερος του κοσμου.
Επίσης είχε συμμετοχή σε στρατιωτικό πρόγραμμα έρευνας στις ΗΠΑ για τον ΗΙV.
Ας δούμε τι δήλωνε στις 15 Αυγούστου του 2021, όταν στην Ελλάδα ήταν η εποχή που δεν τα έλεγαν πολλά από αυτά.
Our exit from the COVID-19 pandemic will be a gradual process, with the ferocious beast becoming progressively less threatening until it becomes something we can live with, says the International Vaccine Institute’s director general, Dr. Jerome H. Kim.
“Successful vaccination turns the tiger
that is COVID-19 into an alley cat. Many fewer people will end up in hospitals or on ventilators, and deaths will be very rare,” he said. Real-world experience from better-vaccinated parts of the world shows there is “a promise of a better future.”
“The cat doesn’t go away, but it’s something that we can live with.”
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, a reminder was in order that this is “not a single battle, but a war,” he said.
“There will be triumphs and reverses. The objective in the end is to win the pennant, and we have to be patient.”
For now, distancing and masks stay
“One of the things that may be a bit unusual about delta is that even
after you’re vaccinated, if you become infected, the amount of virus that can be sampled from your nose or throat is almost the same as a person who’s not been vaccinated,” he said.
“That’s the reason why even
if you’ve been vaccinated, you should continue to wear masks until enough people are vaccinated, because you can spread it to other people just as readily.”
When masks are added, the evolution of the virus is also slower, especially in the setting of a larger outbreak.
“If Korea were vaccinating slowly back in the summer of last year when it had few infections, the mutation rate wouldn’t be very great at all.
But when you’re vaccinating in the middle of an outbreak, then you can run into problems,” he said.
“To vaccinate and continue to use masks is the correct approach, and it’s the approach that appears to decrease the development of vaccine-resistant mutants.”
As for hasty calls for dropping restrictions, he said, “In countries that opened up too soon, we’ve witnessed that the pandemic then turns to the unvaccinated adults and children. We don’t want to relearn the horrible and tragic lessons country after country.”
He pointed out that even with the current wave, low by comparison to other parts of the world, hospitals in South Korea are struggling.
“All you need to do is look at the hospitals. Past a certain capacity, you’re going to be seeing patients who are denied access to care -- not just patients with COVID-19, but patients with other conditions that require intensive care.”
Variant-proof vaccines in the works
So far the virus has been making “pretty predictable” mutations, largely in terms of its transmissibility, he said. Delta is still covered by the vaccines, for one thing.
“But there’s a strain found in Latin America called lambda, which is a little more resistant to some of the protective immune responses that are induced by the vaccine,” he said.
“The delay in implementation of vaccination in countries around the world, and the lack of their ability to control the outbreaks through distancing and masks have meant that a lot more mutations have arisen,” he said.
“During these uncontrolled outbreaks, the virus is mutating, and we fear that the virus could mutate to become both transmissible and resistant.”
He said in a sense, it was
“a race between our ability to vaccinate enough people while the vaccines are still effective, and the ability of the virus to change itself.”No country safe until world is vaccinated
“It’s a big problem for the people of North Korea, and then potentially for the rest of the world -- countries in particular that have a lot of traffic with North Korea over the border, and through other trade means. Potential exists there to be both mutants and transmission.”
He warned that
“all countries in this world have to be considered a part of the solution. Otherwise, they will become a part of the problem.”
Still, the paramount task at the moment remains putting into place an impactful vaccination program that can rein in the virus at least within individual countries. “That will be the first job because if we can do that, then maybe we can start extending it the same way measles was eliminated,” he explained.
“I know that the government’s first responsibility is to the people of Korea,” he said, as it is for places elsewhere to first protect their own.
“On the other hand, they have purchased a lot of vaccines and s
ome of it should be moved over to the mechanism that distributes them to help countries around the world. I know the Korean government has committed to this.
“We should try actively to vaccinate
as many people as possible around the world.”
On Aug. 15, 2021, The Korea Herald celebrates its 68th anniversary as South Korea’s No. 1 English-language daily. To mark the day in a time of pandemic and turmoil, The Korea Herald has prepared a series of stories on the challenges that we face and the prognosis for life with, or after COVID-19. -- Ed.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210812000618
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