Virologist admitted that omicron had properties that frightened since the beginning of the pandemic
Virologist Chepurnov: the omicron may be characterized by an antibody-dependent increase in infection may mean that the new variant of the infection has a property that frightened scientists from the very beginning of the pandemic – an antibody-dependent intensification of the infection. This is evidenced by data published by scientists from South Africa research, said the head of the laboratory of especially dangerous infections of the Federal Research Center for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Professor of Virology Alexander Chepurnov in a conversation with “Lenta.ru”. If you believe this text, then those who have already been ill with the coronavirus are infected with the new strain more often than those who did not get sick at all [COVID-19]. This may indicate that there are some mechanisms that create additional opportunities for the virus to enter the body. This resembles what was feared from the very beginning – a phenomenon called antibody-dependent