[Minister of Health and Welfare Kwon Deok-cheol/Yesterday: The 4th pandemic is beginning to appear.]
The main culprit of the 4th pandemic is a mutant virus.
There are three types in Korea: the UK, South Africa, and Brazil, but it is a little different from the virus from China.
It's getting stronger, spreading faster and killing more people.
It has been reported that both the spreading power and the lethality rate are increased by 70%.
But now the vaccine is made with a virus from China.
That's why there is a saying that it's useless for more sejin mutant viruses.
If so, let's see if the vaccine is really a water vaccine.
Let me first introduce one of the most interesting researches recently.
There are people who have never had coronavirus and have never been vaccinated, but are immune to coronavirus.
Is it because I eat a lot of kimchi?
Carrying garlic and onions?
Not even that.
The secret is the cold virus.
I suffered from a mild cold similar to the coronavirus, but with a fatality rate of almost zero.
What happened in those people's bodies?
When infected with a virus, two things occur: one is an antibody and the other is an immune cell.
What antibodies do is keep the virus out of the body, and immune cells fight off and kill the virus that has already entered.
I caught a cold similar to a coronavirus, but no antibodies were made, but immune cells that could fight and kill the virus were made.
The same goes for vaccines.
The ability to prevent mutant viruses from entering at all will be diminished, but they can create immune cells that can fight and kill any viruses that have entered.
The vaccine is not water.
The effectiveness has been proven.
Because of the mutant virus, corona patients around the world are increasing rapidly, and Germany, France, and European countries are also serious.
However, the UK, which is in Europe, has the only vaccination rate of over 50%, and the number of patients is falling sharply regardless of the mutant virus.
The same is true of Israel.
It would be impossible if a water vaccine wasn't effective for mutation, and there's another reason that vaccines are never water.
The more important role of the vaccine is to lower the mortality rate.
The mortality prevention rate is close to 100% for the elderly 65 years of age or older who are now vaccinated.
If you get the vaccine, your chances of dying even if you get the mutant virus are almost zero.
The more prevalent the mutant virus is, the more aggressively the elderly and high-risk patients with underlying diseases should get the vaccine.
'The mutant virus turns the vaccine into water', which is by no means true.
(Video coverage: Gong Jin-gu and Ha Ryung, Video editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Ryu Sang-soo and Seo Seung-hyun)