“An unvaccinated person is, as it were, a springboard for the evolution of the virus.
If a person is vaccinated, then the chance that his virus will evolve and be transmitted to someone is much lower, because he may not get sick at all and not become a source of infection, ”the specialist said in an interview with RBC.
He noted that in a population where many people have not been vaccinated, the virus is more likely to evolve and benefit.
“Vaccination, effective antiviral agents and anti-epidemic measures make a major contribution to the future: will there be a dozen more new strains or will the pandemic end at omicron,” Chulanov said.
As Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said earlier, a coronavirus vaccine for adolescents is expected to enter civilian circulation next week.