“There is an understanding of how long the immunity of a particular individual lasts, and we have come to understand for a reason six months after the previous vaccination.
It was not just that we came to an understanding six months after the illness, ”he said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.
As noted by Protsenko, this is the period when post-vaccination immunity or natural immunity allows us to say that this will protect the patient.
“Here again, it seems to me, the medical community and the community of pharmaceutical manufacturers will monitor this situation and will adapt vaccinations,” the head physician said.
According to him, he always cites the situation with seasonal flu as an example, when it is predictively understood which of the strains will be and a vaccine is selected for this predictive strain.
“I think that the story of the coronavirus in the medium-term perspective should certainly look the same,” the expert quotes kp.ru.
Earlier, Protsenko spoke about the differences between the next wave of coronavirus incidence.