The real question is whether it will be more deadly. 🦠 engineering
Kerkhove was answering questions about the pandemic as to what it likely had in store for us next and when would it end. Kerkhove said that the next variant would have to overtake what is currently circulating, so it would need to be more fit in terms of transmissibility. However, how deadly the virus would get was the main question.
Kerkhove even warned against the theories that suggest that future variants would result in milder disease. Rather the variant could escape immunity provided by currently available vaccines. Pfizer has already begun trials of aShe also stressed the unknown long-term effects of getting COVID-19 and warned against willfully exposing oneself to the virus.
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