Virologists appreciated the words about the impossibility of achieving herd immunity

Collective immunity from CORONAVIRUS will appear one day, its formation alone is hampered by the emergence of new mutations of the infection, experts interviewed by RBC said.

They commented on the words of the HEAD of the information center for monitoring the situation with the coronavirus, DOCTOR Alexander Myasnikov in the TELEGRAM channel. He stated that herd immunity would not be formed in RUSSIA, since even in countries with a high proportion of vaccinated people, the dynamics of the number of cases is not decreasing.

Not everyone’s immunity protects against re-infection, however, collective immunity depends on the variability of the coronavirus, Sergei Voznesensky, associate professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases at RUDN University, told RBC. “If the virus continues to mutate, then herd immunity will fail, herd immunity will not protect against the disease,” the scientist said.

Voznesensky also did not rule out that at one moment such a strain of coronavirus could appear, from which the vaccines developed today cannot protect. This won't be a critical issue, he said, as scientists can "tweak" vaccines to account for mutations so they remain effective.

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Voznesensky added that in this case, humanity will be regularly vaccinated against the coronavirus, as is the case with the flu virus. “Most likely, a new coronavirus infection will become the same seasonal disease as the flu, so herd immunity will be formed after vaccination,” he said.

Vitaly Zverev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology at Sechenov University, also pointed out the danger of mutations for the formation of herd immunity in an interview with RBC. The scientist said that sooner or later immunity will still be achieved. However, how quickly this happens depends on the effectiveness of the vaccines, the spread of the virus and the duration of immunity after the illness, he noted.

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“There are reasons to think that immunity will be long enough. And if serious mutations do not occur, then sooner or later collective immunity will be acquired, ”said the virologist. According to him, in order to achieve herd immunity, it is necessary that 80% of the population have antibodies.

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Head of the Ministry of HEALTH Mikhail Murashko said at the end of January that in order to stop the spread of coronavirus, it is necessary to form herd immunity at the level of 60% of the adult population of the country, or 68-69 million people. According to RBC estimates, as of August 20, 40.5 million Russians were vaccinated with at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, 32.9 million people were fully vaccinated.

In early August, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Health, Viktor Fisenko, predicted that herd immunity at the level of 80–90% in Russia would be formed in “a few months.” Head of the Center Gamalei Alexander Gunzburg also admitted that the desired level would be reached before the end of the year.

Over the entire period of the pandemic in Russia, more than 6.82 million people fell ill, and 179,243 people died, according to the operational headquarters. Over the past day, 19,630 cases of coronavirus have been identified, 820 people have died, follows from the data of the operational headquarters.

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