He noted that, as experts found out, if a person received two doses of Sputnik V and six months had passed after the second vaccination, then the effectiveness against Omicron was 75%.
“If a person does boosterization, that is, the third dose as it should be in six months, then after two or three months, the effectiveness against Omicron is 100%,” the vaccinologist said.
Kostinov explained this by the fact that the Sputnik V vaccine can counteract many mutations of the omicron strain.
“This is something that imported vaccines like Moderna or Pfizer do not have,” Kostinov said.
Kostinov also suggested that in a couple of years the coronavirus could become like an acute respiratory disease.
Previously Director of the Center
Gamalei Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with RT, explained why the Russian Sputnik V vaccine gives a titer of virus-neutralizing antibodies to the coronavirus omicron strain more than twice as high compared to two Pfizer injections.