“We can say that COVID-19 accelerates the aging of people, but perhaps in a reversible way,” the doctor said.
He explained that post-COVID syndrome is similar to the sudden onset of old age, but people can recover from it.
“During the period of COVID-19 and post-Covid, a person feels bad, but then everything returns more or less to normal biological age,” Skulachev said.
According to him, patients who have had coronavirus after vaccination are more likely to tolerate the disease.
“If you are not vaccinated and get sick with COVID-19, then in fact you get all those “adventures” in health that you should have received over the next ten years, but you feel them in ten days,” Skulachev said, noting the similarity with the accelerated aging.
Earlier, epidemiologist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with NSN, spoke about the importance of revaccination against coronavirus.
Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the Omicron strain.