Doctor: to increase the amount of antibodies, the second component of the vaccine can be administered on the 28th day
21st, and 28th day after the first phase. Such an unexpected way to enhance the effect of vaccination and increase the number of antibodies was revealed in an interview with Ura.ru by the Russian doctor-immunologist Nikolai Kryuchkov.
The specialist noted that with the introduction of the second phase of the drug, later immunity to COVID-19 sixth to seventh week. “Of course, this does not mean that nothing will happen in a month, just the effect will not be maximum,” Kryuchkov noted.
The immunologist emphasized that it is not worth introducing the second component of the vaccine ahead of schedule.
< p> In turn, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vitaly Zverev said that the introduction of the second phase later was not contraindicated, although there was no research on this topic yet.
Earlier, the infectious disease doctor Evgeny Timakov noted that if the level of neutralizing antibodies are below 300, there is no need to urgently make a decision on vaccination.
According to Timakov, initially 150 neutralizing antibodies were required to protect against the Wuhan variant of COVID-19. The specialist explained that an antibody level below 300 does not always mean that a person can get the delta strain of COVID-19.