“All necessary medical assistance is provided”: what is known about the hospitalization of Vladimir Zhirinovsky with COVID-19

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is in the hospital with coronavirus.

As specified in the Ministry of Health, the state of the politician is stable.

“His condition is stable.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky is being provided with all the necessary medical assistance, ”RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the ministry.

The Ministry of Health also clarified that the politician has been in the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital since February 2.

It is specified that Zhirinovsky was diagnosed with an omicron strain of COVID-19.

According to RIA Novosti, information about the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party was confirmed by the presidential administration, which is in charge of the medical facility.

At the same time, according to the RBC publication, which refers to a source in the party, Zhirinovsky needed artificial lung ventilation.

The RIA Novosti source, in turn, denied this information, saying that the state of the politician does not require connection to a ventilator.

Also on russian.rt.com Zhirinovsky was re-vaccinated against coronavirus

Note that Zhirinovsky claimed to have been vaccinated against the coronavirus several times.

In particular, in December, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, he said that in a year and a half he had “injected himself eight times with various vaccines.”

According to him, “at the first stage” he used the Sputnik V drug, then the CoviVac vaccine.

The politician explained that he monitors the level of antibodies and makes another injection as this indicator decreases.

“If the antibodies have decreased sharply, still do a re-vaccination.

The maximum period is six months.

Four is better.

I get two.

In a year and a half, I did eight times, ”the politician said.

He also suggested that fewer vaccinations in his case could mean a chance of getting sick.

Omicron and repeated cases of COVID-19

Immunologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov spoke about the level of antibodies necessary to resist the Omicron strain.

“From my point of view, speaking in the context of the Omicron strain, I would already consider all values ​​​​below 1000 BAU / ml to be an insufficient level of antibodies to protect against coronavirus,” he said in an interview with the Moscow 24 website.

According to him, if the level is below 500 BAU / ml, then it is worth considering vaccination.

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As Kryuchkov noted, it is important to remember that the level of antibodies after an illness decreases over time.

“That is, after the illness, it could be 2000 BAU / ml, and after four months - 200 BAU / ml,” he explained.

Rospotrebnadzor, meanwhile, suggested that the current wave of coronavirus cases could recede by the May holidays.

This point of view, in particular, was expressed by Alexander Gorelov, Deputy Director for Research of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Chairman of the National Scientific Society of Infectious Diseases.

“Usually, somewhere around 45 days (going. -

) growth phase, then there will be a stabilization phase, (then. - 

) a decline phase.

According to your forecast, these are really spring, May, holidays and summer.

But our country is different, ”Gorelov said at a press conference, answering a question about the likely timing of the decline in the incidence.

His words are quoted by Interfax.

As Gorelov clarified, Russian cities at different times entered a phase of increasing incidence.

In particular, in large regions such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region, the spread of "omicron" began earlier.

According to the expert, the decrease in these regions may also begin earlier, while in other regions of the Russian Federation, the decrease in the incidence will occur in about two to three weeks.

Gorelov also noted that the spread of "omicron" led to an increase in the repeated incidence of coronavirus.

“If we used to say that no more than 1% get sick again, and to be precise, 0.7%, then at the moment, up to 15% get sick again,” Gorelov said.

Along with this, the expert noted that the frequency of recurrent diseases is not related to which strain of coronavirus a person was previously infected with.