The coronavirus has downgraded from a “tiger to a wild cat” and could die out on its own without a vaccine, according to an infectious diseases specialist in Italy.
Prof Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Italy claims that the coronavirus has been losing its virulence over the last month and patients who would have previously died are now recovering.
The Professor’s comments are in stark contrast to a warning issued by the World Health Organization’s chief who said that the Coronavirus pandemic was far from over and had actually entered a “new and dangerous” phase.
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Yahoo News reports: The expert in critical care said the plummeting number of cases could mean a vaccine is no longer needed as the virus might never return.
His comments come after the Health Secretary announced on Thursday that a deal had been struck between pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University to begin the manufacture of a potential vaccine.
“The clinical impression I have is that the virus is changing in severity,” said Prof Bassetti.
“In March and early April the patterns were completely different. People were coming to the emergency department with a very difficult to manage illness and they needed oxygen and ventilation, some developed pneumonia.
“Now, in the past four weeks, the picture has completely changed in terms of patterns. There could be a lower viral load in the respiratory tract, probably due to a genetic mutation in the virus which has not yet been demonstrated scientifically. Also we are now more aware of the disease and able to manage it.
“It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it’s like a wild cat. Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before.
“I think the virus has mutated because our immune system reacts to the virus and we have a lower viral load now due to the lockdown, mask-wearing, social distancing. We still have to demonstrate why it’s different now.
“Yes, probably it could go away completely without a vaccine. We have fewer and fewer people infected and it could end up with the virus dying out.”
Prof Karol Sikora, an oncologist and chief medical officer at Rutherford Health, previously said it is likely the British public has more immunity than previously thought and Covid-19 could end up “petering out by itself”.
Niamh Harris
It might have a 6 month shelf life. Tou now being more or less a synthetic man made in natural thing it’s not of the quality of a real disease No wonder they had such a rush to get everything operational so fast The speed with which they declared the pandemic and the way they killed so many patients in NY especially, with their primitive lteatments, all screamed some sort of weird panic station operation and the media Barons total ” drowning ” the world in fear was completely suspicious considering they k ew crom the start that only a tiny few vulnerable people were at risk .
Headline tommorow “Infectious Diseases Specialist found dead Fauci claims suicide”
it will die out, just like every other virus, except a new virus will be release in the fall by the deepstate so they can more easily cheat on the election