A pandemic like COVID-19 is “unlikely,” according to Dr. Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health at the University of Southampton,
Who spoke to the Mirror. HMPV had existed for years, but Covid-19 was a “entirely new” kind of coronavirus.
According to Dr. Head, HMPV is a respiratory virus that is already prevalent in the United Kingdom. In the UK and across the world, immunity will be pretty common.
Large outbreaks would thus certainly raise local public health concerns, but they are unlikely to trigger a pandemic, unlike COVID-19,
Which was a completely novel coronavirus with low levels of population immunity. Around this time of year, Dr. Head continued, increases in respiratory infections like HMPV,
