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November 23, 2020
The European Commission’s leading clinical advisor on pandemics has proposed a sober diagnosis of the features needed to eliminate Covid-19.
There are 4 theoretical tactics of the pandemic, Belgian microbiologist Peter Piot, special adviser to the President of the European Commission, told reporters on Wednesday (28 October).
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Only the last one turns out to give hope.
The first is for the virus to replace it “by miracle” to make it less deadly.
“It’s unlikely, you never know, ” he said.
The time is to spread up to 70 percent of the population, also known as collective immunity, at the expense of millions of deaths. “I don’t think it’s something we can conform to ethically,” he said.
The third is the long-term blockades that push others into poverty.
“And finally, and that’s where there’s a soft one at the end of the tunnel, and it’s a vaccine, or vaccines,” he said.
Piot chatting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and through a video conference.
He noted that vaccines are lately found in clinical trials.
“I am hopeful that until the end of the year we will know how effective some of these vaccines will be,” he said.
But any vaccine will first have to go through comprehensive protective tests, including clinical trials of up to 100,000 people.
Evidence is also needed to convince skeptics, he said, noting that about 25% of respondents refuse to take any long-lasting vaccines that oppose the virus.
And there is no guarantee that a vaccine will offer long-term immunity, which means that the face mask and social distance will have to be maintained.
“It may not end until it ends everywhere,” he warned.
In the case scenario, von der Leyen said up to 50 million doses of vaccine can be given according to the month across the EU.
So far, more than one million people across Europe have become inflamed with the virus, which is expected to build up over the next two to three weeks.
Although the average burden of intensive care sets in Europe is about a third of their point in the spring, it is also expected to increase.
Piot’s comments follow the announcements of new measures through the European Commission to combat the pandemic.
The EU executive has a coordinating role in this area and can ask EU states to work together.
Along with other measures, he demanded over the summer that EU states prepare for a moment to increase their testing capacity through a joint procurement programme of EUR 350 million.
But disorders such as fitness remain delicate for national governments and pose disruption to both and the movement of goods.
The committee’s most recent set of proposals aims to exchange knowledge for testing, equipment, travel and vaccination strategies.
“No Member State will be safe from the crisis until everyone does, and that is why they will listen to us about cooperation, coordination and solidarity,” von der Leyen said.
She intends to convey this message to heads of state and government at an assembly on Thursday.
It also allows them to share national knowledge with the Swedish-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
“This will allow us to know, for example, where there is ample capacity for care or where cross-border patient care can be arranged when needed,” he said.
The commission is also creating a platform of national clinical advisers on Covid-19, in order to align the recommendation given to governments.
And it mobilisations some one hundred million euros to acquire immediate evidence, which it will then distribute to the Member States.
But von der Leyen’s call for greater cooperation touched on a sober note.
“I think this year’s Christmas will be another Christmas. It all depends on our behavior,” he said.
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