Will the vaccination boost the body's immunity if the coronavirus has already infiltrated it?
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People who become sick with the coronavirus on the day of the vaccine's initial injection nonetheless obtain immunological protection, according to a large-scale research conducted by Israeli experts. A coronavirus vaccination given to an organism that is already sick minimises the chance of hospitalisation and death. These figures were gathered on behalf of Pfizer. Sputnik V, on the other hand, has a similar impact, as Izvestiya was told at the Gamaleya Research Institute. Even if the virus enters the body just after immunisation, it will protect against serious sickness and death.
Israeli researchers conducted a study to determine how the coronavirus vaccination impacts persons who got the first dose of the two-component vaccine on the day of SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as a few days before or after. It was shown that as compared to individuals who did not get injections, the death rate and chance of hospitalisation due to coronavirus infection are much lower in these patients.
"We compared statistics for newly vaccinated individuals who had a positive PCR test for coronavirus on the day of the initial injection or within five days of it to a control group that did not get the vaccination." "We discovered a substantial drop in death rate among those vaccinated, particularly at the age of 55-64 years," the researchers wrote in a report on the study's findings.
The incubation time that occurs between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the start of symptoms ranges from one to fourteen days, depending on the strain. This implies that participants in the study who had symptoms on the day of vaccination or shortly thereafter received an injection at a time when the virus was already present in their systems. Scientists claim that they were still protected.
According to Israeli specialists, the COVID-19 vaccine may be administered efficiently not only before infection, but also soon after. As a result, they now utilise, for example, tetanus or canine rabies treatments that are injected into an already infected creature.
An Israeli investigation was undertaken on patients who were vaccinated with the first component of the vaccine developed by the American corporation Pfizer. The Russian two-component vaccination "Sputnik V" differs somewhat from it. However, as described to "Izvestia" in the Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, N.F. Gamaleya, where it was produced, in the event of infection during vaccination, it operates on the body in a similar manner.
Pfizer and Sputnik V vaccines are structured differently, but their end mechanism of action is the same. The active principle in both situations is a protein encoded by the S-protein gene. This gene is introduced in both circumstances. This S-protein is the target of the immune response following both vaccinations. As a consequence, the results of the Pfizer vaccination can be transmitted to Sputnik V, according to the Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology's lead researcher. Anatoly Altshtein, N.F. Gamalei.
Israeli researchers examined the data of almost 11,000 vaccinated individuals who passed a positive PCR test 1-5 days after the initial dose. They split the participants into seven age groups and compared the effects of coronavirus infection in these groups to the effects of COVID-19 in the same age group who had not been vaccinated. The death rate among vaccinated patients over the age of 65 was half that of their unvaccinated counterparts. And among research participants aged 55 to 64 who had been vaccinated, the risk was five times lower than among those who had not been immunised. In addition, the researchers discovered a significant difference among the number of hospitalizations in these age groups. Unvaccinated people were hospitalised far more frequently.
The individual becomes infected if the virus enters the body soon before immunisation. However, the inflammatory process takes time to develop, giving antibodies time to form. They might show up within a week. If they were not, the patient might suffer from a severe case of the illness. But he's not going to. There is a period after immunisation when there appears to be no protection, yet it is already present. When an infection develops, an immune response develops in tandem, - Anatoly Altshtein describes the vaccine's method of action on an already infected organism.
Immunization, even during the incubation stage of a coronavirus infection, according to Andrei Prodeus, an immunologist and research professor at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, makes it simpler for a patient to acquire COVID-19.
According to the expert, the vaccine, when administered during the incubation phase, causes both specific and non-specific immune responses. After that, he starts to notice the infection. There is a fundamental immunological response. Antibodies of the first class "M" and antiviral cells are isolated. They improve in specificity, usefulness, and selectivity through time, but they work from the start.
"People who get at least the bare minimum of vaccines make their life simpler." The pathogen's ability to conquer space is critical in the early stages of infection. We will still become sick if we limit this capacity, but it will prevent us from the most severe repercussions, according to Andrey Prodeus.
According to Stanislav Ostavnov, head of MIPT's Laboratory for Analysis of Population Health Indicators and Digitalization of Healthcare, people should not exaggerate the vaccine's initial efficacy and consider themselves immune immediately after the injection. Before embarking on a more active lifestyle as a result of vaccination, it is preferable to wait until the due period, during which antibodies will build.
One of the most common reasons of sickness following immunisation is a lack of monitoring. He injected himself, left the hospital, removed his mask, and that was it - he was invulnerable. No, it doesn't work that way. Only a few days following the second injection will a person be completely equipped. Furthermore, as we know, Omicron may resist the immune response in general, and it is already aggressively driving out other strains," stated Stanislav Otstavnov.
Of course, it takes time for full-fledged protection to develop after vaccination, but the findings of Israeli specialists' scientific study reveal that, regardless of the period of illness, a person who has been vaccinated is in better health than those who refuse the vaccine.