Just before the arrival of autumn, the start of the new school year and the return to our daily lives, but mainly with an increase in crowds due to falling temperatures and worsening weather conditions, how to deal with the coronavirus continues to be of concern and anxiety. health scientists.

“Everything shows that we have already passed the stage of symbiosis with the virus, and not isolation. It was fully realized that everyday life could not continue with constant restrictions, obligations and prohibitions. The mental, socio-economic and medical consequences are especially painful and terribly unpredictable,” Dr. Stamatula Tsikrikas, pulmonologist at the SOTIRIIA hospital, president of the Hellenic Pulmonology Union, emphasizes to the Athens Agency.

After 2.5 years of the pandemic

“Having survived more than 2.5 years of the pandemic, we must recognize that we are by no means at the same level of knowledge and therapeutic treatment that we were at when the virus first appeared,” notes Ms Tsikrikas. The most important were the transnational exchange of best practices, the use of new medico-technological tools, the acquisition of valuable clinical public health experience, the acquisition of hybrid immunity in the population through vaccination and natural disease, and the introduction of antivirals. factors in stopping the RNA virus that has upended the normality of the entire planet.

On the other hand, he adds “concern about death statistics, re-infection rates, the definition of long-term or post-COVID syndrome, pressure on the health care system, and the spread of misinformation and fruitless or unfounded arguments against new scientific advances.”

Virus dynamics.

“While everyone wants the coronavirus to progress to the level of a simple cold and therefore not to a serious illness, it is now clear that the virus has its own dynamic evolutionary course of survival, which is expressed in sub-variants capable of avoiding the former immunity,” says Mrs Tsikrikas.

This is evaluated, as he says in the virus.

Sub-variant of the updated vaccines “Centaur” – NSS booster

Ms Tsikrikas adds that “the prevalence of a new strain, such as the Centaur sub-variant, with the prevalence of a new strain, such as the Centaur sub-variant, with an accurate prediction of when a new pandemic wave will arrive, will be difficult to measure. , as it depends each time on the prevailing level of immunity in the general population, updated public health measures and increased use of personal protective measures.

The weapon to fight the pandemic is the timely and mass availability of updated vaccines that can contain new circulating strains of the virus and provide increased protection, while at the same time planning and organizing a new health map throughout the territory. says Ms Nuth. He adds that the strengthening and restructuring of health care providers, staffing at all levels of health care and proper management of human and logistical resources will relieve the already depleted NHS and significantly increase the level of health care delivery to citizens.

Source: RES-IPE