Coronavirus has downgraded from a "Tiger to a wild cat" and could die out on its own without a vaccine, an infectious diseases specialist has claimed.
The expert in critical care said the plummeting number of cases could mean a vaccine is no longer needed as the virus might never return.
"It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it's like a wild cat. Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before."
"Yes, probably it could go away completely without a vaccine. We have fewer and fewer people infected and it could end up with the virus dying out."
Prof Karol Sikora, an oncologist and chief medical officer at Rutherford Health, previously said it is likely the British public has more immunity than previously thought and Covid-19 could end up "Petering out by itself".
Dr Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School and a former Public Health England consultant, said the idea that Covid-19 would die out is "Optimistic in the short term".
"I don't expect it to die out that quickly," he told The Telegraph.
The expert in critical care said the plummeting number of cases could mean a vaccine is no longer needed as the virus might never return.
"It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it's like a wild cat. Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before."
"Yes, probably it could go away completely without a vaccine. We have fewer and fewer people infected and it could end up with the virus dying out."
Prof Karol Sikora, an oncologist and chief medical officer at Rutherford Health, previously said it is likely the British public has more immunity than previously thought and Covid-19 could end up "Petering out by itself".
Dr Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School and a former Public Health England consultant, said the idea that Covid-19 would die out is "Optimistic in the short term".
"I don't expect it to die out that quickly," he told The Telegraph.
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