Experts assessed the harmfulness of the nasal vaccine against COVID-19

Nasal vaccine against CORONAVIRUS, developed in the center. Gamaleya does not cause any harm, experts interviewed by RBC believe.

“The vaccine does not contain active replicating virus. The virus contained in this vaccine is able to infect a cell, but does not produce offspring. And the vaccine after the introduction into the brain will not work. There is simply nothing to go, ”said Anatoly Altshtein, professor of virology, chief researcher at the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology.

Earlier, virologist Konstantin Chumakov, DIRECTOR of the Center for the Global Virological Network of the United States , said that a nasal vaccine, including against coronavirus, could potentially be more dangerous for the body than one that is administered intramuscularly. According to him, such a vaccine can be dangerous because it can enter the brain through the nose.

“It’s hard for me to say what the virologist’s fears are based on. In any case, clinical studies are underway, and they will show the result. Now there is no reason to believe that it is more dangerous than Sputnik, which has proven its effectiveness," said Larisa Popovich, director of the HSE Institute of Economics and HEALTH.