Experts assessed the impact of vaccination on the likelihood of the spread of COVID

Vaccination helps protect against CORONAVIRUS not only the person who has been vaccinated, but also his colleagues, family members, contributes to the formation of general population immunity. This was reported by experts interviewed by RBC.

“The only reliable way to fight [coronavirus] is to get the right response from the immune system. No medicine can yet kill the virus - only our own immune cells do this. Medicines can only support the body a little during this struggle. And in order for immunity to form, you need to either get sick (and most importantly, survive after the illness, risking possible serious complications), or get vaccinated and familiarize the immune system with a potential enemy in advance. Of course, everyone chooses options for themselves,” said Larisa Popovich, DIRECTOR of the HSE Institute of HEALTH Economics.

Professor of Moscow State University, DOCTOR of Biology Alexei Agranovsky added that vaccinated people create "local immunity". it helps to protect relatives and friends of those who have been vaccinated against infection. “A kind of dome that protects family members and the work group. Achieving local immunity is possible in full 3 weeks after the second dose of the vaccine (if the immunization is double). The effect lasts as long as the immune status exists, ”the expert specified.