could the fifth wave be the last?

It would be the good news that everyone is waiting for: that this wave be the last. “I said that it was perhaps 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 Monday, January 3 on France Inter.

However, some specialists point out that new variants can appear. But another scenario is emerging: that of a virus that would become commonplace. “That’s the life of the virus, and little by little, it will undoubtedly be a virus like the rhinovirus, the flu… We will live with it”says Vincent Enouf of the Pfizer Institute. “What is highly probable is that in the long term it will become a seasonal virus, that it gives forms less serious or equivalent to the flu. (…) We have too many uncertainties today”, explains Dr Bruno Lina.