Gunzburg said that the children's vaccine against COVID-19 is a 5-fold diluted “Sputnik V”
Children's vaccine against coronavirus – this is “Sputnik V”, divorced five times. The director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg told about this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to him, the results of clinical trials of a vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 are in the Ministry of Health. The results of the studies showed that the drug is effective and safe, Ginzburg emphasized.
“Even the effectiveness, that is, the amount of antibodies produced in adolescents as a result of such vaccination, is many times higher than the number of antibodies that are formed in adults as a result vaccination with a complete “Sputnik” “, – said the head of the Gamaleya Center.
He explained that this is due to the immune system of adolescents, which reacts better to foreign antigens. Gunzburg added that capacities for the production of a children's vaccine are already being prepared.
Earlier, Gunzburg revealed the name of a children's vaccine against coronavirus. According to him, the drug may be called “Sputnik M”, in which the letter “M” would mean “for the little ones.”