As he noted in an interview with Vechernaya Moskva, if such a situation develops, then usually in this case a person has severe concomitant diseases.
“Of course, a vaccine is not an elixir of immortality, if we are talking about an elderly person with serious illnesses, with oncology ... Always a difficult patient dies from infection.
Today, it is COVID-19.
Previously, it was pneumococcus, influenza and so on, ”he said.
At the same time, the doctor added that often in patients, including young people, pneumonia is complicated by the addition of an additional disease, for example, bacterial pneumonia.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that 42.4 million citizens were fully vaccinated in Russia.
On October 8, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced the need to continue to actively educate citizens about the importance of vaccination against coronavirus.
In June, doctor Timur Pesterev, in an interview with FAN, gave advice on vaccination against coronavirus.