Grzesiowski: Before, the infection required contact with a sick person. Delta infects otherwise

– Previously, in order for an infection to occur, direct contact with the patient was necessary. He would have to stand next to you and spray his saliva or other secretions into the air to infect you. In the case of the Delta variant, the sick person could already leave the room, the lady would walk in there, breathe the local air and thus got infected – Paweł Grzesiowski, an expert of the Supreme Medical Council, explained in an interview with the Warsaw Gazeta Wyborcza.

1. «In Australia it has been confirmed that a healthy person has contracted the contamination in the toilet from which the sick person came out a moment earlier. – said Grzesiowski
2. The NRL expert explained that another variant of the virus adapts to its environment to quickly catch new vulnerable people. “It has already exhausted the adult population, so it polishes the docking mechanism among increasingly younger people: children, adolescents, young adults”
3. The virus has to rebuild. Perhaps the wave will move to the second half of October, but anyway it will increase in the three-month cycle – forecasts Grzesiowski
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When asked what it means that the primary variant of the coronavirus was transmitted by airborne droplets, Dr. Grzesiowski explained: He would have to stand next to you and spray his saliva or other secretions into the air to infect you. In the case of the Delta variant, the sick person could already leave the room, the lady would walk in there, breathe the local air and thus became infected ».

Delta Mutation: The most aggressive mutation

«In Australia it has been confirmed that a healthy person has contracted the contamination in the toilet from which the sick person came out a moment earlier. It is assumed that currently in a closed, unventilated room, the virus remains in the air for an hour after the patient’s departure, in sufficient quantity to become infected »- he indicated.

When asked if delta was easier to get infected, he said: “The delta variant is currently the most aggressive type of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, which is manifested by a four to five times higher infectivity than the base variant and more hospitalizations.” «Previously, one patient infected about two people on average, now up to eight people. Another variant of the virus adapts to its environment to quickly catch new susceptible people. It has already exhausted the adult population to a large extent, so it is polishing the docking mechanism among new, and therefore ever younger, people: children, adolescents, young adults »- explained Dr. Grzesiowski.

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Grzesiowski: the fourth wave will start in September

An expert of the Supreme Medical Council, when asked whether the vaccinated can feel completely safe, said that “currently over 90 percent, and Americans even say that 99 percent. all hospitalizations due to COVID-19 concern unvaccinated people ». «Which does not mean that those who are vaccinated do not get infected at all. It is assumed that despite the full vaccination course, in contact with the Delta variant, we lose about 10-15 percent. vaccine effectiveness. Protection against death and severe course of COVID-19 is still at a high level of 90 to even 93 percent, but it drops in the case of mildly symptomatic infections to the level of around 70-80 percent. » – added.

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He reported that “according to all mathematical models, increases in Poland will start at the end of August or September, reaching their maximum at the end of September or October”. «And it is not about any seasonality, sun or heat, but that at the moment the pool of people susceptible to infection is exhausted. The virus has to rebuild itself, which is happening unevenly, because in large cities many people have been sick or are vaccinated, and in villages where people live more scattered, the virus needs more time to get them. Perhaps the wave will move to the second half of October, but anyway it will increase in the three-month cycle »- he stressed.

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