The director of the Gamaleya Center, Alexander Gunzburg, said that the optimal period for revaccination against COVID-19 is six months. He expressed this opinion in an interview. TASS…
According to the specialist, just such a period before the re-vaccination will provide the greatest response of the immune system to the drug. He added that the six-month break is also due to the emergence of a delta strain of coronavirus, due to which it is necessary to maintain a high level of protective antibodies.
A similar opinion on the frequency of revaccination is shared by the clinical pharmacologist Andrei Kondrakhin. Too frequent revaccination against COVID-19 can backfire and cause “immune paralysis,” he said.
He urged citizens not to overdo it with revaccination, so as not to deplete the immune system, and against the background of hyperimmunization not to get the opposite effect – secondary immunodeficiency.
In an interview with TASS, Gunzburg also said that the QR code system, introduced in a number of Russian regions to improve the epidemiological situation, should operate until at least 80 percent of the country’s population is vaccinated.
The doctor assured that if the country carries out strict control over the availability of QR codes, then within two months the majority of Russians will be vaccinated. “And if it is slipshod and there are no rigid boundaries between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, there will be constant waves,” the doctor said.
Gunzburg recalled the need to maintain a tight distance between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. In his opinion, the QR code system has already shown its effectiveness in this area in many countries of the world, where it was introduced earlier and where there are still restrictions on visiting certain places and using the infrastructure for unvaccinated citizens.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov spoke about the upcoming revaccination of Vladimir Putin. He is quoted by RIA News…
According to him, Putin will certainly undergo revaccination against coronavirus, but now the Russian leader still has high antibody titers. Whether the revaccination process will be shown to the Russians will depend on the opinion of the president himself. When asked if Putin’s opinion changed after the first vaccination, Peskov replied that he didn’t know about it. “As he decides, so be it. But this is a personal decision of a person, ”he concluded.
At the end of June, Putin announced that he had been vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. Mass vaccination against coronavirus in Russia began on December 18, 2020, however, for categories of citizens from risk groups, the vaccine was available from December 5.
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