Experts evaluate reports of COVID cases for the

third time it is possible, but rare, to contract CORONAVIRUS for the third time. According to experts, the number of people carrying covid-19will not affect the severity of the new disease

It is very unlikely to become infected with the coronavirus for the third time, and the number of infections transmitted cannot affect the severity of the disease, experts interviewed by RBC said.

“It is unlikely that a person can get covid for the third time and, moreover, get sick more severely. This is casuistry. In 2-3% of the population, immunity and the field of vaccination are not formed, and here. The severity of the disease depends on the state of the immune system. If it is weak, a person will be seriously ill every time, ”says the immunologist, HEAD of the laboratory for vaccine prevention and immunotherapy of allergic diseases of the Federal State Budget Scientific Institution Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums. I. Mechnikov RAMS Mikhail Kostinov.

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He noted that it is possible to transfer COVID-19 for the third time more difficult with deep defects in the immune system. According to the expert, such cases are extremely rare.

Virologist, professor of Moscow State University Alexei Agranovsky is also sure that everything depends on the immune status of the body. “A past infection does not provide strong protection, especially against new strains, such as Delta, if there was previously an illness with an “old” strain). Up to nine months after being vaccinated with Sputnik, regardless of the previous disease, the status is good, the protection is reliable, ”the expert says.

The virologist also noted that there is a small chance of contracting coronavirus for the third time.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the department of microbiology, virology, immunology at Sechenov University Vitaly Zverev told RBC that it is impossible to get infected with the coronavirus for the third and even the second time. “Second or third, this can only happen when the virus changes so much that it changes its antigenic structure completely, that is, some new coronavirus must come into the population. In fact, immunity after a disease is not six months or even a year, ”the specialist assures.

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He suggested that antibodies after the disease may disappear, but in this case the person will continue to protect cellular immunity.

Earlier, the infectious disease specialist, chief physician of the Leader-Medicine medical center, Yevgeny Timakov, said that COVID-19 can be ill for the third time, and a person can tolerate the virus worse than before. “The virus bypasses immune barriers and calmly infects a second or third time. And often the third time is even stronger than the first two,” he said.

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Immunologist Vladimir Bolibok told RBC that a patient with any number of antibodies is extremely unlikely to get sick with coronavirus again, since any antibodies at any titer have protective properties. “If a person had a low antibody titer after an illness, and then they disappeared altogether, he can become infected. But, firstly, this is unlikely, and secondly, he will not get sick in a severe form, ”he said.

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