The medical community supported the proposal of the Ministry of Health of Russia on the transition from mass vaccination against coronavirus to vaccines for risk groups. The incidence of COVID-19 in Russia remains low, but for the first time in six months there has been a slight increase – the number of infected increased by 2% in a week. At the same time, they are already talking about the possibility of a new wave of COVID-19 in the US and some European countries, and are voicing their concerns about a new strain with a large number of mutations. About reports Reuters.
According to a survey conducted by the distance medical education service Vrachu.ru in mid-August, the number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Russia is now significantly lower than a year or six months ago, and the disease itself is milder in these patients. who gets infected. The majority of doctors (73%) who believe that mass vaccination is not necessary in the current situation supported the idea that vaccinations should be given only to risk groups, and many expressed the view that they “don’t see it as logical anymore”. .
However, 14.4% of health professionals admitted that they did not have a clear idea about this issue, and 12.6% of the approximately 2.5 thousand survey participants spoke in favor of continuing mass vaccination.
Since the beginning of July, six cases of infection with the new COVID-19 variant have been detected in four countries. Scientists are particularly interested in this new variant, named BA.2.86, as it contains 36 mutations that distinguish it from the currently dominant XBB.1.5 variant.
However, there is still no reliable evidence that BA.2.86 spreads faster than previous variants or causes more severe forms of the disease.
In recent months, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have increased in Europe, Asia and the United States, most of them associated with the EG. 2021.
Experts explain that BA.2.86 comes from a “previous branch” of the coronavirus and is therefore different from the variant targeted by current vaccines.
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