Medical worker during rapid testing for coronavirusMOSCOW, Jan 24 Coronavirus pandemic in on a planetary scale may end as early as 2022, Vladislav Zhemchugov, doctor of medical sciences, immunologist, specialist in especially dangerous infections, told RIA Novosti. The main thing is to differentiate diseases in the early stages so that patients with a mild course of the disease («omicron» — ARVI) can be treated on an outpatient basis, at home, and the healthcare system is not overloaded with unnecessary hospitalization. The expert also noted that it is difficult to predict the end of a new wave of coronavirus in Russia, associated with the «omicron», due to specific transport links within the country, which mainly go through Moscow. To do this, you need to know the communicative map of the country well, he explained. According to him, the “task” of the “omicron” is a massive “seeding” of the planet, without numerous deaths. As a result, the virus will «find» a new host, as humanity has formed an inhibitory herd immunity. As a result, a new naturally focal infection is formed, similar, for example, to Ebola. «It must be considered on a planetary scale. I believe that on a planetary scale within a year this will end unequivocally, even reaching the most distant islands in the Pacific Ocean,» Zhemchugov added. 
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