Collective responsibility failed, endangering collective immunity in Serbia

Primarius Radmilo Petrovi, an epidemiologist, cannot enhance this projection with an estimate of the progression that will increase the number of newly infected, of which there were 145 on Tuesday, and whether we could have several hundred infected a day by the end of this month.
He told Novosti that the mathematical model in the field of biology cannot be considered reliable, but he is also sure that we are not in a very favorable situation - both because of the characteristics of the new delta strain and because of the delay in the vaccination process.
That is why Dr Petrovi, however, is convinced that we will have a mass illness again before the fall.
"Delta virus is more resistant than the original, a smaller amount of virus is enough to cause infection, and it's faster. All this, after decades of experience in epidemiology and virology, tells me that we will not manage all summer with, conditionally speaking, a small number of newly infected on a daily basis", says Dr Petrovi for "Novosti". Whichever population it enters, the delta becomes dominant very quickly, so it is expected that the strain whose presence was proven on July 1, will overtake the hitherto predominant British variant of the coronavirus.
"How this fourth epidemic wave will develop depends on the virus itself, which is definitely more virulent and aggressive now, but also on the medium it encounters. It is not the same whether it will encounter a population of 60-70 percent protected or unvaccinated. Temperature, as we saw last summer, has no direct effect on the virus itself, but if we gather in air-conditioned rooms, it will certainly contribute to the spread of the virus", Dr Petrovic concluded.
Under such circumstances, with about 100 newly infected people a...

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