Corona update 3 will corona virus go away

1. CORONA UPDATE 3: WILL CORONA VIRUS GO AWAY?
Dr. Narendra Malhotra
M.D., F.I.C.O.G., F.I.C.M.C.H, F.R.C.O.G.,F.I.C.S., F.M.A.S., A.F.I.A.P.
Managing Director
Global Rainbow Healthcare, Agra
Prof. Dubrovnick International University
Director IAN Donald School (India)
V.P. WAPM (world association of prenatal medicine)
Member Education Committee IAPM
Past President ISPAT (2017-2019), ISAR (2017)
Past President FOGSI (2008)
Founder Editor SAFOG Journal
Mobile no. 9837033335
Email id: mnmhagra3@gmail.com
Dr. Neharika Malhotra
M.D Obs-Gyn, FICMCH, FMAS
Infertility Consultant at Rainbow IVF Hospital,AGRA from June 2015 to present
Asst. Prof in Bharati vidyapeeth Medical College from June 2013 to June 2015
Consultant at Malhotra Hospitals from May 2011 till May 2012
Jr. Consultant and Fellow in Reproductive medicine at Patankar Hospital Pune
Mobile No. 8055387886
Email Id: dr.neharika@gmail.com
Corona Virus is here to stay with humans for a long-long time, may be forever let us accept this fact and
not panic and make our lives miserable unnecessarily. We need to learn to live with the fact. “CORONA IS
HERE TO STAY”.
This novel virus has posed so many questions to the medical fraternity, epidemiologists and to the policy
makers. Almost all agree that this virus will persist in the future as an endemic disease, which will surface
in episodes and cause periodic epidemics. As of today most of the world population has not yet got
infected and out of those who have almost 80% or more are asymptomatic or with mild disease. Yes a
susceptible co-morbidity and older male population is at greater risk of serious critical illness and even
death.
Already we have 4 types of corona virus which are endemic in the world and cause seasonal common cold
and flu like diseases. COVID-19 is probably going to be the fifth corona virus which has come to our planet
to stay.
The worry now is how do humans adapt to live safely with corona. The world is looking for a quick fix
solution to this pandemic and a lot of knee jerk actions are being taken and revoked, leaving everyone in
confusion of what is the right step. Lockdowns and unlocking has been seen to help but at the cost of an
economic pandemic which we are facing now in June-2020.
What will work, no one is sure, will a vaccine help, we are not sure. What will be that one thing to
eradicate corona. It’s for our good that we must realize there is no one thing that will work, including the
quick fix vaccine. Only two viral disease small pox & polio have been eradicated by a vaccine and that too
at the cost of millions of lives and over a period of almost 200 years. How this vaccine will fare, we have no
clue yet.
It was postulated that the summer heat will reduce the effects of this virus and corona will die off, but that
has not happened, corona has survived in extreme of weather conditions of heat and cold and is attacking
human beings as virulently all over the world, in all climates.

2. The only ways of keeping this virus at bay is :- S.M.S. (Sanitizing, washing hands with soap & water for 20
seconds and wearing mask in public places and maintaining a 1.8 meters social distancing).
Getting paranoid about newspapers, letters, courier packets, hot water drinking, gargles, too much alcohol
spraying and washing is an overreaction. Just washing hands, respiratory manners of coughing & sneezing,
wearing an appropriate mask and social distancing will reduce your chance of catching the infection to 1%.
Remember wearing gloves is not a good idea as the virus can stick to the surface of cloth gloves and be
transmitted to your face if wearing surgical gloves, hand washing & hands sanitization over gloved hands is
still needed.
As of now in June-2020, many believe now that COVID disease (SARS-COV-2) will become relatively milder
because the human immune system will develop a memory to respond to the virus (HERD IMMUNITY) and
the likelihood of severe “cytokine storms” occurring and making people very sick may reduce. This will
ultimately happen, but in how much time we don’t know, may be years. Finally this disease will settle in to
an endemic seasonal flu like disease.
Yes a vaccine is on the way, but the medical community is not yet sure on the dosage schedules for this
year for next years (2021-2022) and for the next ten years. The availability of this vaccine is expected by
December 2020 but tell global demand will be much more than the supply and will lead to hoarding, black
marketing and ineffective dosing campaigns.
The was against corona is not an easy was to win and needs a great deals of public awareness and public
participation in just 3 simple measures S.M.S.
We hope and pray humankind will learn sanitization, wearing masks and social distancing
We are headed towards a new normal on planet earth.
Prof. Narendra Malhotra
Email id: mnmhagra3@gmail.com
Dr. Neharika Malhotra Bora
Email Id: dr.neharika@gmail.com
(With inputs from Prof. Nihal Singh Jain, Dr. Jaideep Malhotra, Dr. Keshav Malhotra)