Yasmina Kattou, edited by Solène Delinger
6:13 a.m., January 13, 2022
Can Omicron save us from the pandemic? Extremely contagious, this variant gives rise to the hopes of the scientific world, which relies on its meteoric spread to achieve collective immunity. Indeed, according to the WHO, one in two Europeans will have been infected by Omicron within two months.
The extremely contagious Omicron wave is raising hopes. The scientific world is counting on the rapid spread of this variant to achieve potential collective immunity. While the vaccinated will have more antibodies, the non-vaccinated will develop a natural protection against the virus. Explanations.
“Omicron will reach everyone”
“Nobody knows exactly when we will be at the end of the tunnel, but we will get there,” Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccine strategy at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said on Tuesday. At the beginning of January, Olivier Véran said in the columns of JDD : “This fifth wave may be the last. Omicron is so contagious that it will affect everyone.”
Hope arises from the extreme contagiousness of Omicron. The more people who are positive for Covid, the more the proportion of the immune population will increase. Within two months, one in two Europeans will have been infected with Omicron, estimates the World Health Organization. Unvaccinated people will therefore develop natural protection. Vaccinated people will have even more antibodies. This potential collective immunity will make it possible to better cope with the appearance of a new variant.
Coronavirus could become flu-like
Even if a new variant appears, it will not have as many consequences as it does today, explains Philippe Amouyel, epidemiologist: “The new virus will have much more difficulty in having the same circulation as Omicron”. According to him, a large part of the population in the world will be immunized by the summer. The Covid would then become an endemic, seasonal disease, just like the flu.
To increase the chances of achieving this, the WHO is asking laboratories to work on vaccines to better fight against transmission.
Source From: Europe1
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