感染しないほうがいい理由

Explainer: Why you should still try to avoid catching Omicron

By Nancy Lapid

重症にならないなら別に感染してもいいんじゃないか、という人たちがいるが・・・

But the extraordinary spread of Omicron in many countries means that in absolute numbers, more people will experience severe disease. In particular, recent data from Italy and Germany show that people who are not vaccinated are far more vulnerable when it comes to hospitalization, intensive care and death.

"I agree that sooner or later everyone will be exposed, but later is better," said virus expert Michel Nussenzweig of Rockefeller University. "Why? Because later we will have better and more available medicines and better vaccines."

"We have no data yet on what proportion of infections with Omicron... end up with Long COVID," Iwasaki said. "People who underestimate Omicron as 'mild' are putting themselves at risk of debilitating disease that can linger for months or years."

High infection rates also give the virus more opportunities to mutate, and there's no guarantee that a new version of coronavirus would be more benign than its predecessors.

割合は以前と比べて少なくとも重症になる人たちはいるし、あなたが重症にならないとはかぎらない、後遺症もどうなるかまだ不明、さらに仮に罹っても時期が遅ければ遅い程、治療薬などがでてくる可能性がある。多くの人が感染してしまえば、コロナが変異する確率も高まる、と。