Professor of virology, at the University of Aberdeen, Hugh Pennington, who expressed doubts about a second wave - in the United Kingdom, said the evidence supporting the wave of the second wave was "very weak" and explained, "I said that to the Health and Sports Committee of the Scottish Parliament, in April, and she was criticized by the Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicolas Sturgeon, for that. "
"My path of microbiology began working on viruses spread through the respiratory system, and I had the privilege of working with John Almeida, discovering human coronaviruses," the scientist added.
Pennington considers that the evidence supporting the idea of a second wave or "Covid 19" infection in the UK, which would sink the public health system, is too weak.
The British scientist explains, "If we reduce the closure incorrectly, the infection is likely to continue, many of which are in the form of localized outbreaks, but not waves or peaks." Then he added that theories of the second rise in infection could be like the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, not accurate.
That year, there was the first outbreak between June and July, but the second wave between October and November was the most deadly.
However, it is still unclear why the epidemic disappeared after the first wave and reappeared months later. There is a possibility that the virus in the first wave is genetically different from the pathogen in the second outbreak, but this is a guess, as there are no remaining samples from the first outbreak.
Subsequent epidemics were much less lethal. The first wave of Asian influenza was less lethal than the first time it appeared. Between 1968 and 1969, Hong Kong flu was less lethal, but the second outbreak in Britain killed more than the first, although the first was more deadly in America.