World leaders messed up with coronavirus - epidemiologist
As part of the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, Russia should not have introduced a total quarantine.
Yuri Lysanov, a well-known epidemiologist in Irkutsk, an employee of the Department of the Medical Academy of Epidemiology and Microbiology, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this.
According to him, phenomenon of the city of Sayansk, where, despite the refusal of strict quarantine, there are currently no cases of coronavirus infection, may be explained by previously acquired herd immunity, the strategy of which is practiced today in Sweden.
“Although Sweden is now criticized for the increase in diseases and deaths. The Swedes really made mistakes - for example, they did not take into account that migrants with hourly wages work in nursing homes. Not wanting to lose money, they went to work sick, and as a result, the mortality statistics for the elderly went up.
But the Swedish model, based on the development of herd immunity, seems to me more reasonable than all the others. They don’t even see the point in testing the population and prefer to spend this money to support the economy. By the way, in Russia, some leading epidemiologists proposed something similar. For example, opening kindergartens and schools, since children who carry the virus more easily is an important element in immunizing the entire population. It was proposed to protect and isolate only the elderly,” says the doctor.
True, he is convinced that the Swedish model will never be recognized as correct.
“World leaders, in the wake of general hysteria, were afraid that they would be accused of inaction. And they broke the wood. Masks. Gloves. Passes. Now it’s psychologically difficult to win back all this,” says Lysanov.
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