will the fifth wave of Covid-19 be the last?

This would be the good news that everyone is waiting for: may this wave be the last. “I said maybe it was the last of the waves: given the rate of contamination in our country, and also on the planet, it is probable that we have all acquired some form of immunity, either by vaccination, by infection or both “, said the Minister of Health on Monday January 3 on France Inter.

However, some specialists point out that new variants can appear. But another scenario emerges: that of a virus that would become commonplace. “This is the life of the virus, and little by little, it will undoubtedly be a virus like the rhinovirus, the flu … We will live with “, says Vincent Enouf, from the Institut Pasteur. “What is highly probable is that it eventually becomes a seasonal virus, that it gives less severe or flu-like forms. (…) We have too many uncertainties today “, explains Dr Bruno Lina, virologist and member of the Scientific Council.