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“Very high number of cases”: Drosten warns of a new corona wave after the summer holidays

2022-06-24T04:24:43.811Z


“Very high number of cases”: Drosten warns of a new corona wave after the summer holidays Created: 06/24/2022, 06:14 By: Tom Offinger Christian Drosten warns of a new corona wave. © Kay Nietfeld In view of the increasing number of cases, virologist Christian Drosten warns of a corona wave after the summer holidays. The pandemic situation will probably accompany Germany for a long time. Berlin


“Very high number of cases”: Drosten warns of a new corona wave after the summer holidays

Created: 06/24/2022, 06:14

By: Tom Offinger

Christian Drosten warns of a new corona wave.

© Kay Nietfeld

In view of the increasing number of cases, virologist Christian Drosten warns of a corona wave after the summer holidays.

The pandemic situation will probably accompany Germany for a long time.

Berlin – The virologist Christian Drosten expects a very high number of new corona cases after the summer holidays in Germany.

“I hope that the school holidays will slow down the increase in the number of cases.

But from September, I'm afraid we will have very high case numbers," said the head of the virology department at the Berlin Charité

in

an interview published on Thursday evening.

If nothing is done, there will be “a great many absences due to illness” in working life.

Drosten warns of summer wave: "Exponential increase in the number of cases"

"We are actually seeing an exponential increase in the number of cases again," warned Drosten.

"The BA.5 variant is simply very transmissible, and at the same time people lose their protection against transmission from the last vaccination." In other countries, one can see that the number of hospitalizations and deaths increased again when the number of cases was very high.

“Unfortunately, that will be the case for us too.

Overall, however, far fewer people will become seriously ill and die than in 2021.”

He does not believe that by the end of the year one will have the impression that the pandemic is over, said the corona expert.

In January, Drosten had expressed the hope that Germany could declare the pandemic over in the course of the year.

The virologist recommended avoiding infection as much as possible - also because of the risk of Long Covid.

“Unfortunately, an infection is inevitable in the long term.

And little by little, mucosal-specific protection is actually forming, which I assume makes the overall population immunity more resilient.”

Christian Drosten: Endemic condition could "take a few more winters"

On the other hand, the virus is also evolving.

"I assume that at some point a new equilibrium will settle in: the population's immunity from vaccinations and infections will eventually be so strong that the virus will become less important.

Then we are in an endemic state.” In the worst case, however, this could “take a few more winters”.

A disease is considered endemic if it occurs in a region with a relatively constant number of cases.

(to with dpa)

Source: merkur

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