Bulgarian Prof.: Protection is Insufficient from a Vaccine Administered more than 10 Months ago and from an Infection 1 Year ago

"We have reached the ridge - the most cases per unit of time. I think that within two weeks we will be able to observe a gradual decrease in the number of new cases. Of course, this largely depends on people's behavior."

This is what Professor Todor Kantardzhiev - adviser on health issues of the Capital Municipality said for BNR on the occasion of the new Covid measures in Sofia.

He assessed as an "unpleasant trend" the mass refusal of people to be tested for coronavirus, since the NHIF does not cover the cost of these tests. This has deprived the "health care system of the opportunity to assess the dynamics of new options in individual areas".

"The cases that are currently being registered are based on a few hundred PCR tests and only a few thousand antigen tests. We can safely say that the probable number of new cases is much higher," added Kantardzhiev.

"People with symptoms risk spreading the infection", he warned.

"I want to clarify something that even many great specialists in our country talk about - 'infectious colds'. As early as 1931, three American scientists with experiments in the Arctic proved that there is no such thing as a 'cold'. It is usually a viral or bacterial infection associated with a cold of the body. Standing now, in the summer, with a draft and sweat constricts the blood vessels in the nose, reduces the ability of white blood cells to provide protection to the nasal mucosa, and you become infected much more easily. A cold is always some kind of infection."

According to Kantardzhiev, there is "some kind of collective immunity" in Sofia, but due to the slow immunization around the world, the virus has mutated. He...