Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when the virus would disappear. Important points from his press conference
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- Dr Ryan then said he doesn’t believe “anyone can predict when this disease will disappear”
- There are currently more than 100 potential vaccines in development which will take 10-12 months to be ready for mass population use – but Dr Ryan noted there are other illnesses, such as measles, that still haven’t been eliminated despite there being vaccines for them because it takes a united effort across nations to vaccine everyone on planet like we did in case of small pox. – a massive effort.
- Almost 300,000 people worldwide are reported to have died with coronavirus, and more than 4.3m cases recorded. Mortality rate stands between 0.5-1% depending on which country you are in.
- “HIV has not gone away – but we have come to terms with the virus.”
- WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove also told the briefing: “We need to get into the mindset that it is going to take some time to come out of this pandemic.” – (possibly an year as per other experts)
- Dr Tedros warned that there was no guaranteed way of easing restrictions without triggering a second wave of infections.
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