WASHINGTON: Two Indian health experts argue that it enables the spread of fast eryikron, which some experts look unavoidable, it is probably a better and safer bet to end the pandemic, even when other mainstream professionals will warn that such a strategy will play with fire.
“Policies designed to slow down the spread of omicrons can finally create a more contagious superviance, more resilience and more resistant to vaccines …
policy makers must tolerate the spread of lighter variants.
This will require difficult exchanges, but will save lives in the term Long, “Vivek Ramaswamy and Apoorva Ramaswamy, argued in the OPED WSJ.
“We must end the mask mandate and keep social in most settings not because they don’t slow the spread …
but because they might do it,” write the duo.
Vivek is the founder of the Roivant Sciivant and APOORVA health care company, Assistant Professor Otolaryngology at Ohio State University Medical Center.
But their point of view was destroyed by several medical professionals, who said “deliberately tried to catch Omicron” similar to playing with dynamite.
The CNN review of such an argument includes several reasons why it can be an idea that is questioned: 1) This is not a bad cold, as is widely trusted.
2) There is always a long covid danger.
3) This will tense the health care system.
Oped also draws an angry response from those who lost family members for Covid.
The argument by Ramaswamy and Ramaswamy on the WSJ Oped ran as follows: To understand why it is better to let Omicron run freely, someone needs to consider scientific differences between antigenic drift and antigenic shift.
(Antigen is a molecule -Su like a protein of SARS-COV-2 surge -That’s immune system is detected as a foreign.
The host’s immune system then installs a response.) They write: “Antigenic Drift” describes the process where one point of mutation (a small genetic error ) Randomly occurs during the virus replication process.
Instead, “antigenic shift” refers to the quantum leap disconnected from one antigen (or set antigen) to a very different antigen (or set antigen).
New strains – like those who jump from one species to another – tend to emerge from antigenic shifts.
Vaccinated and natural immune people can change their immune response to new virus strains created by antigenic drift.
But social distance and masking increase the risk of vaccine resistant strains from antigenic shifts by minimizing opportunities for vaccinated and natural immunity to adjust their immune response.
While their ideas have been encountered widely with a spicy response, with some readers to question their professional competencies and credibility, some embrace the argument amid frustration on endless protocols.