We know for example, that if you had a COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2, you have also have immunity to SARS-CoV-1 which we had earlier, a few years ago. It also provides protective immunity to the other four common coronaviruses that are endemic that we’ve all been exposed to, and that we will continue to be exposed to.
So I don’t see any problem with [the] Delta variant. It’s not a game changer.
The best approach is to make sure that our old people get vaccinated to protect them. And then we should not have lockdowns. We should let people live their normal lives.
The key thing is if you had had COVID already ... that protects you against severe disease ...
For example, in the UK, there was a wave of cases that peaked in the mid-July. It was a very sharp increase [but] for mortality it is just a tiny blip. So this is a contrast to before the vaccines and before focused protection, when cases rose and mortality rose in parallel. But the vaccines and the immunity from people who’ve had COVID is decoupling that ...
We can see it (the same pattern) in Sweden ...
We see the same thing here in the U.S. ... in the summer wave ... in the southern states: There have been [more] cases, [but only a blip in deaths].
COVID-19 will always be with us. It’s not going away. We can’t eradicate a virus like this. When people get exposed to it for a second time, a third time, a fourth time, the immune system helps, making sure that it’s not a serious illness ...
Of course, people are born every year and they are susceptible. They haven’t had it. So when children are born, they don’t have the immunity to this particular virus, but we know that the infection is very mild for children.
So as long as children are exposed and their immune system built up, then the next time they are exposed to the virus, their immune system will protected them."
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