Therapist, clinical pharmacologist Andrei Kondrahin in a conversation with “Tape.ru” spoke about the danger of the new Andean strain of coronavirus. According to him, antibodies will be more difficult to block a new virus, which can significantly increase the risk of infection from unvaccable and not yet painful people.
Japanese scientists have previously discovered the new properties of the Andean strain of the Coronavirus “Lambda”. According to them, it is resistant to immunity and is able to shy away from the organism already produced by the organism.
New virus against old antibodies
The doctor warned that the coronavirus mutations are associated primarily with the change of its structure: when the structure of the spike changes, the virus itself changes, it begins to attack the body in a different way.
“Nevertheless, antibodies are not under the spikes, but under a certain recipe device of the virus, – says Kondrakhin. – Our antibodies, in fact, universal, this is a large peptide conglomerate, connecting the source of the threat. So you can not talk about The fact that the new strain is completely resistant to immunity, and that antibodies will be less effective, they will not be able to fully close the virus and do not attach to the cell. “
Kondrakhin noted that in the presence of vaccination or antibodies to the disease, a certain immune response will still be, however, it may be insufficient and recovery will delay for a longer period.
“Remember when we first encountered coronavirus, we didn’t have any antibodies at all. And only after some time we got them. The same thing and now, only in a more successful version for us: We already have Antibodies familiar with the causative agent, they simply need some time on restructuring, “the doctor reassured.
Specialist added that over time people will increasingly face new strains of COVID-19. And this is not necessarily a changed Wuhan virus – new variations may well be the result of mutations of other, wild forms of coronavirus.
“How does the disease flows with a new strain, there is no information yet, this we just have to find out,” the doctor clarified. – But, in any case, we are more or less prepared for its appearance, in fact, the question is only Whether antibodies will be able to block the virus for conditional 12 hours or for 24. This danger lies in the fact that one day no antigenic properties may change, but the virus body itself. This will lead to a quick hit in the body and, accordingly, the deterioration of the disease. / P>
The World Health Organization (WHO) has previously revealed the distribution of “lambda” -variant coronavirus in more than 30 countries. It was specified that we are talking about a relatively young version of COVID-19, which was first revealed in Peru in December 2020. It is mainly observed in North and South America.