Doctor and TV presenter Alexander Myasnikov shares the forecast of billionaire Bill Gates, which he published in his message the day before, about a new pandemic threatening humanity, Gazeta.ru reports. Scientists have discovered the first mutation of the coronavirus, against which antibodies are powerless. Myasnikov agreed with Gates about an epidemic with a high mortality rate, for which the world, despite the coronavirus pandemic, is still not ready. “Bill Gates said, and I said this a little earlier. I have always said that we are expecting an epidemic, and the covid came a little earlier. The entire medical world is waiting for an epidemic of either bird or swine flu with a mortality rate of 35%. Therefore, a universal influenza vaccine was urgently developed. Instead of such a serious epidemic, a covid came with its minimum mortality rate of 2% and brought the whole world to its knees, or rather, cancer. This showed our complete unpreparedness. I have said many times that covid is training. We must say thank you to him for highlighting all the inability to fight an elementary epidemic, - quoted by the publication Myasnikov. According to the Russian doctor, it is necessary to establish a system for monitoring diseases. It is especially important to pay attention to Brazil, Africa, Mexico, China, from where, according to Myasnikov, the spread of the new virus is most likely. “We have been walking on the edge for a long time, there are epidemics all the time,” the TV presenter noted. Earlier, Alexei Agranovsky, professor of the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, said on the air of the NSN that he expects the situation with coronavirus to stabilize by the summer. “It seems to be heading for this. The authorities are guided by the morbidity curve, which is pleasing. It is difficult to say for what reasons this is happening, because in the West the situation is worse. This is a paradox for me. It looks like the situation is stabilizing. Taking into account domestic vaccines, which I think are not bad, the situation will stabilize by the summer. Since viral diseases lose their strength in summer, we will probably take off our masks,”he said.
