Academician of RAMS Karabinenko: in 5 years COVID-19 will be seasonal like ARVI and influenza Alexander Karabinenko told Lente.ru that COVID-19 will soon have to turn into a seasonal disease, like a cold, ARVI or flu. The specialist believes that human adaptation to the virus will occur in five years.
According to the academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, it is not necessary to understand the isolated existence of such living things as microorganisms and humans, because the human body adapts to COVID-19, and the virus adapts to the living conditions that a person presents to him.
“The virus increases its resistance – a person increases immunity, monitors the prevention of COVID-19, and he will get sick less and less. Then in our country this infection will become an acute respiratory disease, such as a runny nose, flu, and so on, “explained Karabinenko.
The doctor noted that it usually takes about two to three years for a person to adapt to the virus, in some cases, four or five. “That is, within five years, people will tolerate COVID-19, adapt and recover. There is nothing complicated in this – this is the law of the existence of life on this planet, “he stressed.
Earlier, a new anti-record was revealed in Russia for the number of deaths from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. As of Thursday, November 18, 1251 deaths of patients with COVID-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours.