Citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 quickly develop antibodies to a new type of Omicron strain. This was announced on Wednesday, February 2, by infectious disease specialist, head physician of the clinical diagnostic laboratory of Invitro-Siberia LLC Andrey Pozdnyakov.
“For this strain, antibodies in previously immunized people are produced even in greater quantities than for the usual Omicron,” the expert noted in an interview with “RIA News“.
According to him, the immune system does not have time to react in advance, in connection with this, infection occurs. However, after such processes, as Pozdnyakov clarified, active production of antibodies in memory cells begins.
However, the doctor added that since at the moment many vaccinated citizens can get sick with Omicron, which will allow them to receive immune stimulation, then “the new substrain probably will not spread as quickly and massively as its predecessors.”
Earlier that day, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is currently unable to penetrate the lung tissue, and therefore does not cause a severe course of the disease. According to her, Omicron does not cause severe forms of COVID-19, as was the case with other strains of coronavirus.
Also on Wednesday, the Deputy Director for Clinical Work of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after G.N. Gabrichevsky Rospotrebnadzor Tatyana Ruzhentsova noted that people vaccinated against coronavirus after infection with the Omicron strain get sick less in time and easier than those who were not vaccinated.
A large-scale vaccination campaign continues in Russia. Citizens can get vaccinated for free. Six coronavirus drugs have been registered in the country: Sputnik V, Sputnik Light, EpiVacCorona, KoviVac, EpiVacCorona-N, and the Sputnik M vaccine for adolescents.
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