Valeriu Gheorghita speaks for Romanians from all over the country, at the end of wave 4 and before wave 5 hits Romania, about what they need to know as a priority in relation to the new Omicron version of the Coronavirus, the one that could cause very big problems all over the world, not just here.
Valeriu Gheorghita talks below about the mutations that this variant has, about what impact they can have on the antibodies generated by healing or vaccination, but also about the importance of vaccination, which could protect us, at least from serious forms of the disease and hospitalization.
"The virus evolves, and the virus will never wait for humanity to have a reaction to this. We must understand that it is a microorganism, a living organism, which adapts, which wants to survive, which has this characteristic of being transmitted, of spreading very easily from person to person.
From this point of view, this interaction with the immune response of people after evolution, the diversification of the variant, the accumulation of new mutations, but not all mutations are in favor of the virus, some creating disadvantages for multiplication, spread, adaptation, but we see that there are situations, and in fact this variant identified in Botswana, is particular because we have 30 mutations in the same virus.
There are mutations in part previously known and found in the previous variants, and in the Alpha variant, and in the Delta variant, and part of them are new mutations, never seen until this moment, but what, I repeat, seems to be the main characteristic of of the virus, is a contagiousness that is at least similar to that of the Delta variant, and this ability to bypass the imposed response, at least partially.
It has those mutations that are found even in the vulnerable region of the Spike protein, where the protective antibodies stick, and from this point of view, when the conformation of the binding site of the antibodies changes, obviously they will no longer attach as they should to the protein, and the neutralization capacity decreases.
The message is obvious, the lower the vaccination rate, the more the estimated number of deaths, and the number of deaths that occur in real life, is worse as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
