Virologist Netesov: vaccination, mask mode and social distance will stop the pandemic RAS Correspondent, Professor Sergei Netesov named three conditions for defeating the coronavirus pandemic. He recalled what factors stopped “any epidemic at all times,” writes URA.RU.
The virologist said that the decline in the coronavirus pandemic depends on each person. According to him, mass vaccination, observance of the mask regime and tough social distance can stop the pandemic.
“Remember the poet Alexander Pushkin? He had two Boldin autumn. Why were they? Everyone forgot that there were severe quarantines due to cholera. There was no vaccine then, so only quarantines, “Netesov explained.
The professor also recalled the outbreak of smallpox in Moscow in the late 1950s, which he managed to defeat with the help of” total vaccination “of the capital. He lamented that many people listen to “only illiterate anti-vaccines who do not know history, do not understand what a virus is, and do not know anything about vaccines.” Researcher of the Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Anatoly Altshtein. “Total vaccination is an attempt to stop the coronavirus pandemic completely. We now see an example of a number of countries where the epidemic has stopped, “he stressed.
Earlier, the virologist Georgy Vikulov predicted the timing of the emergence of the omicron strain in Russia. According to him, this can happen at any time.