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“It’s as if we were wearing those colored glasses and seeing the current situation more positive than it really is,” he said.
Margarita del Val, virologist of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), He explained in an interview to Onda Regional Murcia that, despite the general relaxation of the population in the face of the coronavirus, reality reveals that infections and hospitalizations remain.
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In a radio interview for the magazine ‘Open afternoon’ of Onda Regional Murcia, the scientist has been blunt: “The total number of deaths from this latest wave is very high, more than 16,000 throughout the country, and we do not know the real number of infections. It’s very serious, although there is no such perception at all. We have the impression that it is more likely that we will be mildly affected by the vaccine, but we are by no means facing a finished pandemic,” he stressed.
For the researcher Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center, we are looking at the pandemic from an overly optimistic perspective. In addition, he recalled that the wave of infections caused by the omicron variant remains very active, so he appealed to personal responsibility. “It is as if we were wearing those colored glasses and seeing the current situation more positive than it really is,” she has indicated.