Dec 6, 2021
Sarah Gilbert: Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid
Future pandemics could be more lethal than the current Covid crisis, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has warned. Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, delivering the 44th Richard Dimbleby Lecture, said there needed to be more funding for pandemic preparedness to prevent the advances made from being lost. Dame Sarah added that people should be cautious until more was known about it. Speaking about the Omicron variant, she said: "The spike protein of this variant contains mutations already known to increase transmissibility of the virus."But there are additional changes that may mean antibodies induced by the vaccines, or by infection with other variants, may be less effective at preventing infection with Omicron. "Until we know more, we should be cautious, and take steps to slow down the spread of this new variant."
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