Covid will become weak like a cold and future variants WON’T dodge vaccines, Oxford jab creator says

COVID will become weak like the common cold and is unlikely to be able to avoid vaccines, says the creator of the Oxford jab.

Dame Sarah Gilbert claims that Covid 19, the virus responsible for Covid 19, will not evolve into a more deadly variant. It will instead become similar to the coronaviruses that we all have in our daily lives.

Covid will end up causing a cold, says Dame Sarah Gilbert

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Covid will end up causing a cold, says Dame Sarah GilbertCredit: Alamy

Dame Sarah is professor of vaccinology at Oxford’s Jenner Institute and Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and was given a standing ovation by the crowd at Wimbledon in appreciation of her work.

According to The Times, Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid, will be like the common told.

“We already live with four different human coronaviruses that we don’t really ever think about very much and eventually Sars-CoV-2 will become one of those,” She told the Royal Society of Medicine.

“It’s just a question of how long it’s going to take to get there and what measures we’re going to have to take to manage it in the meantime.”

Dame Sarah also said that Covid cannot mutate to escape vaccines.

She said the spike protein targeted by vaccines had only limited ability to mutate while still allowing the virus to get inside human cells

“If it changes its spike protein so much that it can’t interact with that receptor, then it’s not going to be able to get inside the cell,” she said.

“So there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be are really infectious virus.”

Dame Sarah also said vaccination was the key to containing any future pandemics and preparation for the next one is vital so outbreaks “don’t spread to multiple countries”.

“I don’t want to depress people by making them think that this is all going to happen again – it’s really something that only a few people should have to think about.

“We must be able to respond immediately to outbreaks – vaccinate local populations, contain that outbreak, and stop it from getting worse.

“They will spread if we can’t respond to them and that’s why we need to have the vaccines for these other viruses that we already know about so that we’re able to bring those outbreaks to an end.”

She said that getting a vaccine up for them up and running would cost “under £100 million” compared to the “billions and billions” spent responding to a pandemic.

“Being prepared is going to save us money. It’s cheaper to contain everything early than later.

Dame Sarah has been acclaimed for her work on the Oxford jab

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Dame Sarah has been acclaimed for her work on the Oxford jabCredit: Getty
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