Covid-19 will weaken over time and eventually become just like the other coronaviruses that cause the common cold, says Professor Sarah Gilbert.
Moscow - Covid-19 will weaken over time and eventually become just like the other coronaviruses that cause the common cold, Sarah Gilbert, Professorship of Vaccinology behind the University of Oxford's vaccine, said.
"We already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually Sars-CoV-2 will become one of those. It’s just a question of how long it’s going to take to get there and what measures we’re going to have to take to manage it in the meantime," Gilbert told a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, as quoted by The Times.
Gilbert said that the fears of a more deadly coronavirus variant are unsubstantiated, explaining that"viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily and there is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2." The professor said that it is important to start working on the prevention of further pandemics right now, noting that"by spending a small amount of investment now potentially means that we don't have to have the massive costs of a pandemic at a later stage."
The Oxford vaccine, developed in cooperation with with US-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, was approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use in February.
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