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Delta mutation is different from the corona we have experienced so far.
If so, whether the coping method should be changed again, I will arrange this with Cho Dong-chan, a medical reporter.
Q. Should the quarantine standards be changed?
[Cho Dong-chan/medical reporter (specialist): The Central Clinical Committee for Emerging Infectious Diseases said that the 5th pandemic could come again even if 70% of our people have completed vaccination.
Until last year, it was thought that a vaccine could significantly suppress the corona infection itself.
However, this changed when the delta mutation appeared.
Even with herd immunity, many infected people may come out, and in the worst case, stage 3 or 4 may not be able to escape forever.
That is why we need to change the quarantine standards to live with Corona rather than to end it.]
Q. In what direction should we change it?
[Cho Dong-chan/medical reporter (specialist): We want to change the number of confirmed cases to the number of severe cases and deaths, not the number of confirmed cases.
Even if there are many confirmed patients, if there are few severe cases, we should live as usual. Especially, when the number of patients rapidly increases like now, it is more correct to focus on patients with severe symptoms rather than use medical personnel for patients who are 90% healthy. ]
Q. The number of patients with severe gastritis is increasing, isn't it dangerous?
[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): So, I clearly presented the conditions. This means that coexistence with Corona 19 is possible from the time when people over 50 and chronically ill patients, which are more deadly than the flu, are vaccinated. He then re-emphasized that the purpose of the coronavirus vaccine is not to completely prevent infection, but to prevent loss of life if caught.