Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, assessed the effectiveness of the simultaneous use of vaccines against coronavirus and influenza. It is reported by TASS…
According to him, the joint use of drugs increases their effectiveness. “They mutually reinforce each other in terms of the amount of protective antibodies,” the head of the center emphasized.
Earlier, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov, infectious disease doctor Ivan Konovalov assessed the effect of influenza vaccination on antibodies to COVID-19 in recovered people. He said that getting the flu vaccine would have no effect on the number of antibodies. “There is no such relationship. The immune system selectively responds to antigens that enter the body either in the form of a pathogen – an active virus, or with a vaccine preparation. Vaccination against coronavirus infection is not a hindrance to vaccination against influenza, ”explained Konovalov.
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