People around the world are taking steps to prevent the spread of the new corona virus, Code 19.
It’s hard to believe, but a medical professional deliberately infected himself with the corona virus a second time.
Yes, a virus expert from the Russian region of Siberia infected himself with the corona virus for the second time as an experiment, in order to better understand the immunity to the disease.
Alexander Sefernov, a virologist, said that the antibodies that protected him from the disease had disappeared three months after he became ill for the first time, and he had to be hospitalized for the second time.
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The 68-year-old expert from Novosibirsk told a local newspaper that he first contracted the new corona virus in March, possibly during a purchase in Moscow.
He suffered from fever, chest pain and loss of sense of smell, and was later diagnosed with pneumonia, but antibody tests showed he was infected with the corona virus.
Later, he and a team from the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine began recording the behavior of antibodies to the disease to see how their levels changed over time.
“Observations showed that antibody levels were declining rapidly, and by the end of the third month after the disease, they almost disappeared,” Alexander Sefernov told the media.
The specialist then decided to re-infect himself with the virus to find out how the body reacts to the situation.
To that end, he spent time with coronavirus patients without a mask and had his tests done two weeks later to see if he had contracted code 19 again.
Alexander Sefernov was diagnosed with code 19 for the second time six months after his first illness.
The second time during the illness, the specialist had to be admitted to the hospital with high fever, loss of sense of smell and other symptoms, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
“This time the pain was much more severe than before,” said Alexander Sefernov.
Many things are not clear in this experiment, such as the first time Code 19 was diagnosed with antibodies, but it is still difficult to determine whether it was infected with two different strains of the virus or the same virus.
The second time a patient is infected with code 19 is confirmed when they have identified two different strains of the virus.
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But the case of the Russian specialist is similar to the symptoms of other cases of infection.
So far only a few cases of COD 19 to 2 infections have been confirmed and in most of them the severity of the disease was more severe than the second time.
In the Netherlands, an 89-year-old woman died after a second illness, the first confirmed death from an infection.
Similarly, a 25-year-old man in the United States was hospitalized for the second time due to code 19, although the first time the severity of the disease was not high.
These cases are important for determining the duration of the body’s defense against the virus, as they indicate that the acquisition of collective immunity is, if not impossible, the most difficult.
Alexander Sefernov said his experience was a warning against the collective defense strategy, but also that several doses of effective vaccines against the disease would have to be used.
He believes the virus will be with us for many years to come