“I don’t think that he (a teenager) will have less protection, because the body responds in about the same way.
For the simple reason ... that the amount of antibodies that our immune system will produce for different amounts of the same amount of antigens will be the same, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
Earlier it was reported that 93.2% of volunteers developed cellular immunity after being vaccinated against coronavirus infection for adolescents "Sputnik M", according to the instructions for the drug.
A vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in children aged 12 to 17 was registered by the Ministry of Health on November 24.