Epidemiologist and agglomerations for Christmas shopping: "I'm squeezed by the guata"

Catterina Ferreccio also referred to the new strain of covid 19 and vaccine effectiveness. He believes this strain is not going to "deceive the immune system", unless there is a "mass mutation".

Christmas is approaching in leaps and bounds, why a crowd has turned to malls for last-minute shopping, regardless of the increases in covid 19 contagions.

This phenomenon, "as they say, I'm squeezed by the guata", admitted the epidemiologist at UC Medical School, Catterina Ferreccio.

On responsibilities, noted that “one side can only be attributed to authority and the other to people”.

For this reason, believes that a media campaign should be launched calling for awareness: “We should play it with more effective communication with people so as not to end up in a total quarantine”.

New covid strain and vaccine effectiveness

The new covid variant detected in the UK, is estimated to be 70% more contagious and raised doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines that several countries are implementing.

“This virus multiplies so fast that you see mutations very quickly”, said Ferreccio.

Now, Does this affect inoculations? The ones that are "against protein F, which is the one that invades (…) those in theory might have a problem", which are "Modern and Pfizer's", indicated the specialist.

However, than the virus “he's got some little parts mute, it's not going to fool the immune system either” after receiving the medicine.

"It would have to be a more massive mutation, Probably, to change that protein so much" and lose effectiveness, although at this minute it's very little possible, concluded the epidemiologist.

Source: www.concierto.cl