Leading the news: Dr. Robert Quigley, an infectious disease specialist and senior vice president at International SOS, a leading medical and security services company, told Deseret News in an email that the coronavirus was constantly evolving, which could lead to a new variation on the line. What he said: “COVID-19 is an evolving virus and like any other virus it tends to mutate,” Quigley said.
“If there are accessible hosts (unvaccinated) where the virus can multiply, there will be a constant risk of future mutations and therefore new variants,” he added. “It is hoped that any new variant does not cause a new disease and / or does not make existing vaccines ineffective.”
The largest image: Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told Bloomberg on Thursday that there is about a 20% chance that a new dangerous variant of the coronavirus will appear in the near future.
He said the new variant of COVID-19 would be more annoying to humans, especially vulnerable populations. Such a variant would require more amplifiers and constraints.
What he said: “I believe there is an 80% chance that the variants we will see in the future will be manageable in terms of severity and vaccine production,” Bancel told Bloomberg.
“But I think we always have to be very careful, because there is a 20% chance that something will happen in some of the new variants that is very aggressive.”
Worth noting: Scientists told Newsweek in August 2021 that there was a possible “COVID-day variant of the crisis” on the line. This was expressed before the rise of the Omicron variant, which was launched in the United States this winter.
Prior to the omicron variant, Dr. Mark Dybul, a professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and an immunologist, predicted that a variation would increase this spring – most likely due to the unvaccinated population. “There is simply no way you can have such low vaccination rates around the world with the virus playing ping pong between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. I’m an immunologist. “The chances of seeing a vaccine-resistant strain are very high,” he said, according to Fortune.
