The head of the Gamaleya center, Alexander Gintsburg, spoke about the first results of the study. According to him, the reactions to the coronavirus vaccine in men and women are almost the same.
According to the director of the NITsEM named after Gamaleya, no specific reactions to the vaccine were found. However, it will be possible to say with full confidence about this after the collection of complete statistics.
– So far, it has not been possible to find a difference in the response to the vaccine between men and women. Perhaps the differences will be revealed when about 40 thousand people are vaccinated, – said Alexander Gintsburg in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Note that the domestic drug for the prevention of COVID-19 was registered first in the world. Since the beginning of September, the first participants have been vaccinated; a total of 40 thousand volunteers will be vaccinated in the study.
Note that in the Volgograd region, 16.4 thousand cases have been registered since the beginning of the pandemic. To date, 1.8 thousand patients are in Volgograd hospitals with confirmed coronavirus. The daily statistics of the spread of a new type of infection in the region is published daily by MK in Volgograd.