“There is an optimistic opinion that now COVID has accelerated through the second phase of evolution.
It has become less pathogenic, but at the same time more infectious, which is also good, because in this way, perhaps, nature has created a live vaccine against coronavirus, ”the scientist said.
According to the virologist, there is a possibility that there are those people who get sick and carry this strain of coronavirus, "will become resistant to disease-causing variants."
Chumakov urged to monitor how omicron displaces disease-causing strains and how this affects the severity of the disease and the number of patients in intensive care beds.
“Still, these quarantine measures are tied to the possibilities of medicine.
If this gives a respite for medicine, then, probably, we will not see more serious quarantines, ”the virologist summed up.
Earlier, infectious disease doctor Nikolai Malyshev, in an interview with Nation News, recalled the importance of adhering to preventive measures against the background of detecting omicron cases.