Immunologist Kryuchkov: after 3 years COVID-19 may lose its ability to cause disease and become a seasonal infection. This prediction was made by an immunologist, general director of the contract research company “KEG” Nikolai Kryuchkov in an interview with Ura.ru.
The specialist admitted that the coronavirus will begin to adapt to the immune system. “It will be contagious, but not strongly, because it has limits on infectiousness,” said Kryuchkov.
Initially, the reproductive number for infectiousness, the ability to cover a certain number of people around with the virus, COVID-19 had three … The Russian immunologist suggested that at the peak this figure could rise to 10-11.
Earlier, a leading researcher at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Virology Alexander Chepurnov admitted that the recombination of the SARS-CoV- coronavirus is possible in the future. 2, which could create an even worse virus.