Third vaccine dose, Capua: “Science couldn’t tell”

“The virus will not go away”. For science, then, it was not possible to predict the need for a third dose of vaccine against covid. Professor Ilaria Capua insists on the endemic nature of the coronavirus. The scientist, director of the UF One Health Center at the University of Florida, speaks to In Onda on La7. “We knew that the virus would become endemic and this process just leads to waves chasing each other and chasing winter. When it’s colder in a hemisphere, the wave comes. When the heat comes, you can stay outside and the risk of contagion is lowered, “he says. “Didn’t we say there would be the third dose? We couldn’t tell you, how could we tell you? We could tell that vaccines are sometimes used in one dose, sometimes in two or three doses. Sometimes, in one dose per year, depending on the pathogen. Science moves by trial and error. We must know how to communicate that we do not know certain things. We, as a scientific community, have developed a series of vaccines whose duration we could not know. we have learned by living, we have seen that immunity begins to wane after a certain number of months and we have to withdraw it a little bit on because we are at the beginning of winter “, he adds.” Every time I am hosted on TV, I say that the virus will not go away. We have to learn to live with it. We know the opponent much more than before, we have tools for treatment and prevention: we have to move forward “, he says.” On the third dose we could not tell you, we have developed a series of vaccines of which we could not know the duration it is safe to say certain things, they should not even be commented upon.