A medical worker draws the Sputnik Light vaccine into a syringe. Archival photo MOSCOW, January 14 Despite the possible worsening of the epidemiological situation in Russia in the near future due to the spread of the omicron strain, those who wish can still have time to be vaccinated to protect themselves from the serious consequences of the disease, a doctor told RIA Novosti Andrey Pozdnyakov, chief physician of the clinical diagnostic laboratory of LLC «Invitro-Siberia»"A new surge in the incidence, as we see, has already begun in St. Petersburg and Moscow. You can have time to be vaccinated or revaccinated in order to form immunity by the peak of the next wave. At the same time, if a person has recently been vaccinated or has been ill, then nothing needs to be done. If a person has been vaccinated for a long time, then now you can get revaccinated", Pozdnyakov explained.
He also said that although «omicron» well avoids antibody protection, vaccinated it is tolerated like a common respiratory infection that does not require hospitalization. «If Omicron proceeds easily and mostly at the outpatient stage, then a lockdown is really not needed,» Pozdnyakov believes. Thousands of sick people used to have one thousand severe cases, and now there are the same thousand for every hundred thousand. But if, due to high contagiousness, we get one million cases, then the number of severe cases grows to ten thousand, and if ten million, then one hundred thousand, respectively. That is, due to the mass incidence of the Omicron strain, the total number of severe cases of the course of COVID-19 may grow,” Pozdnyakov gave an example. He noted that “on the other hand, there is no increased mortality rate in America and Europe, everyone is talking about a large the number of detected cases, but the hospitals are not overloaded, the mortality rate has practically not increased.