Dr Yousuf Ali Al mulla
Undoubtedly everyone follows COVID-19 strains that mutate faster, but they don’t necessarily have an incentive to kill more than once. Perhaps by now we have realized how this virus will always try to increase its transmissibility if it can. However, it is difficult to predict the truth about other aspects of the mutated virus, but it is clear through follow-up - if I am not mistaken - that the researchers still lack good handling of the mutant that could cause more severe illness or death!
Although the ability of the virus to transmit can sometimes increase its tendency to kill, the two are by no means closely related: future strains of coronavirus could be heading for more banes, less, or even nothing. Aren’t you with me that most people in social media, followers and perhaps specialists keep trying to classify specific mutants as (more dangerous) or (more lethal), but viral evolution is a random mess - a complex story that we have to watch in real time and most importantly we can’t be complacent and say oh God: is this the end of mutations!
Moreover, as we mentioned in a previous articles, as long as the virus has a host of infection which is us, it will continue to change shape in ways we cannot fully predict. Pretty much here, we should consider our role as humans in this relationship: perhaps what the virus can achieve also depends a lot on us, which means that its evolution as well......Is that right?
Interestingly, these viruses as we have learned are microscopic organisms, thirsting for spread, not massacres. The suffering of their host is not inevitable for them to continue. And in a comically worrying way, Corona’s mutants do not kill people before they can pass it on to someone else! Hence, here we have seen how strains like Alpha and Delta continuously lead to more illnesses, hospitalizations and even death and so it was clear that they helped to deserve all that attention.
On other hand, it seems that the COVID-19 inevitably will be different in the future. Perhaps most importantly, our relationship with the virus will not depend only on its genetic properties. We can expect that the immune defenses we raise against it will shape its evolutionary path as well. It can really be hoped that with more vaccines in many parts of the world, the virus is starting to hit roadblocks and slowly spread. Therefore, by vaccination we make it unlikely that new mutations will appear. The reality is that eventually, as our collective defenses build, the coronavirus may no longer be a more nuisance than the common cold, causing only transient and insignificant symptoms in most people, whose bodies have seen a version of the pathogen before.
However, we must also be realistic, the half-year is over, but the number of people infected and dying due to the Coronavirus in 2021 is more than in 2020 and there are still new mutated strains perhaps in the process of emerging. Everyone in the world has either been vaccinated or infected with the virus and I might not want to bet we have more than a year! Not to mention that if the vaccinated individual was infected, he might need a booster injection soon.
From here, it is necessary for us to prepare for the future and obtain and even request additional quantities of the vaccine from now so that it also covers the booster immunization. In the meantime, we must take other measures that can control COVID-19 but are not being used enough - such as better ventilation, rapid, large-scale testing and better face masks for instance .
At end, you may have noticed with me, that when the World Health Organization decided to name the mutated strains of corona in the Greek alphabet, it gives an impression that at some point, probably we are dealing nearby with one form of corona mutant such as omega. Therefore our decisions will now determine whether this ferocious name -if I may say so-will be accompanied by equally sinister properties, or whether the Omega will just be an unremarkable scene during the conclusion of this pandemic.
Dr. Yousuf Ali Al Mulla is a physician, a medical innovator and a writer. For any queries regarding the contents of the article, he can be contacted at: [email protected]
