The virus is associated with attenuation of the body's immune system.
In the next 10-15 years, more than 80% of humanity can die from the coronavirus. Except for completely isolated wild tribes.
According to one of the versions, not yet fully proven, but already quite creepy, only 17% of the world's population develops long-term immunity to coronavirus. Everyone else will hurt and hurt until they die out.
This is not a very cheerful prospect for all of us was reported by The Guardian, citing a study by scientists from King's College London.
Now we understand the throwing of world governments, the transition to the online mode at least until next year, severe restrictions in many countries, expectations of a collapse in economies … Nothing is over yet. Rather, this is how everything is just beginning.
According to experts, the highest content of antibodies to the virus is recorded in patients three weeks after the onset of the first symptoms. Scientists note that 60 percent in this interval have a very high level of self-defense. However, then immunity decreases. And as a result, it persists in only 17 percent of patients. After three months, the number of antibodies in the blood of most of the subjects dropped to such an extent that in some they could not at all record the presence of at least some immunity.
Lead author of the study, Cathy Dores, believes that refuting the theory of long-term immunity to coronavirus could have a significant impact on the vaccination process in various countries. That is, frankly, it is possible to create a vaccine, but it makes no sense to get vaccinated. And there will be no collective, cross, herd immunity, in which 60-70% must be ill in order to stop the infection.
What evidence does this theory have? Shortly before this, scientists from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan discovered that patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had already developed long-term immunity failures. Doctors conducted a study of the effects of coronavirus on lymphocytes - blood cells responsible for immunity. And it turned out that lymphopenia (a temporary or persistent decrease in the level of lymphocytes in the blood) is a typical symptom of COVID-19.
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That is, if nothing changes, most of the planet will have to die from the coronavirus over the next few decades. Yes, as in due time from the plague. No, people will not die overnight, but with every next outbreak of the epidemic, their resistance will weaken, the immune system will not be able to recover, and the lungs will become more and more mixed with fibrous tissue.
Even the healthiest and strongest in this regime will withstand a maximum of 4-5 turns of the disease.
“If the infection occurs once a year or even once every two years, then in 10 years that part of the population will die that will not have long-term immunity,” - written in an article by British scientists.
So, maybe those experts are right who believe that coronavirus is a kind of HIV transmitted by airborne droplets? What to do? Should we hope that the covid will mutate sooner or later and adapt to the "owner", will not kill him?
But even now, for the majority, it is not fatal. This is not about the fact that he will kill immediately, just this process will stretch over time and the body itself will not withstand such fluctuations.
In this case, many experts believe, only effective antiviral therapy, and not vaccination, can probably help.
I would like to believe that this is another horror story about the coronavirus, of which a great many have appeared over the past six months.
But the Russian experts, whom I turned to for comments, threw up their hands: too little time has passed to judge with certainty what will and what will not.
The question of re-infection is still open: there are suspicious cases around the world when people who have had coronavirus fell ill again, but it is not clear whether this is a new infection or the same virus that has not completely gone away and reactivated.