金冬雁：新冠病毒变异率比流感低多了，“全球疫情正在走向终结”

Jin Dongyan, a professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong and an expert in virology, said: The emergence of Omicron is to achieve immune escape at the cost of greatly weakening the pathogenicity, but this does not mean that enhancing immunity is useless. , Vaccination is one of the very important tasks. Regarding the future mutation of the new coronavirus, Jin Dongyan said: “The mutation rate of the new coronavirus is actually much lower than that of influenza virus and SARS virus. It is only about 1/4 of the mutation rate of HIV. I speculate that as long as there is no immunity The global new crown epidemic is coming to an end.”香港大学李嘉诚医学院生物医学学院教授、病毒学专家金冬雁表示：奥密克戎的出现就是以致病性大大减弱为代价实现免疫逃逸，但这不代表增强免疫力没用，相反，对于抵抗病毒，接种疫苗是非常重要的工作之一。对于未来新冠病毒的变异，金冬雁称：“新冠病毒的突变率其实比流感病毒、SARS病毒的变异率低多了，它大约只是艾滋病病毒变异率的1/4。我推测，只要不出现免疫性超强或致病性超高的新变种，全球新冠疫情正在走向终结。”