The German epidemiologist paints a bleak picture for the coming weeks.
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Madrid Europe’s top disease fighter does not believe that the end of the corona pandemic is in sight and rejects the hope of herd immunity. “That doesn’t exist with other viral diseases such as influenza,” Andrea Ammon said in an interview with Handelsblatt. “In this respect, it is wishful thinking that this pandemic will eventually disappear again. At least not in the next two to three years. “
Ammon is the head of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Its task is to strengthen the EU’s defense mechanisms against infectious diseases and to provide EU members with scientific knowledge about the virus. Your assessment of the current situation is therefore particularly important. And it is cloudy.
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