Worst of the pandemic is `絶対 behind us´, says ワクチン scientist
One of the UK’s 主要な ワクチン scientists and the 運動ing 軍隊 behind AstraZeneca says that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us.
Oxford University professor, 長，指導者 捜査官／調査官 of the Oxford Covid- 19 ワクチン 裁判，公判s and director of the Oxford ワクチン Group, Sir Andrew Pollard, helped to develop the AstraZeneca jab in 2020.
Speaking to The Telegraph a year on from the first time AstraZeneca was 治めるd to a member of the public, Prof Pollard 表明するd 楽観主義 going 今後 ? even as the Omicron variant continues to 荒廃させる the UK.
“The worst is 絶対 behind us. We just need to get through the winter,” he told the newspaper.
As for Boris Johnson’s 現在の 扱うing of the 危機, with his 比較して light 制限s across England, Prof Pollard said: “(It) seems to be working so far. The system isn’t 落ちるing over. But it’s finely balanced.
“We can’t fully answer whether he’s got it 権利 for some time.”
In the 12 months since AstraZeneca was 注入するd into Brian Pinker, 82, a 透析 患者, nine billion Covid doses, 含むing AstraZeneca, have been given 世界的な.
In Britain alone, 90% of over-12s have had their first ワクチン and more than 80% have had two doses, while 33 million boosters have been given.
によれば Prof Pollard, when the Oxford/AZ 裁判，公判s were first started in April 2020, ワクチン scientists and 捜査官／調査官s were told it would be two years before the ワクチン could be rolled out.
With so much of the UK and other richer nations now vaccinated, Prof Pollard has 追加するd his 発言する／表明する to calls to “open up”, にもかかわらず the 現在進行中の 脅し from Omicron ? which the 最新の UK 熟考する／考慮するs have 示唆するd is milder than Delta.
Prof Pollard told The Telegraph: “At some point, society has to open up. When we do open, there will be a period with a bump in 感染s, which is why winter is probably not the best time. But that’s a 決定／判定勝ち（する） for the 政策 製造者s , not the scientists.
“Our approach has to switch, to rely on the ワクチンs and the boosters. The greatest 危険 is still the unvaccinated.”
