OREANDA-NEWS. According to the Vice-Rector for Clinical Work and Additional Professional Education, Head of the Department of Faculty Therapy No. 1 of Sechenov University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Viktor Fomin, antibodies and a PCR test for coronavirus should be passed before vaccination against coronavirus. Also, it will not be superfluous to remember about adverse reactions to other vaccinations.

According to the expert, everyone who decides to get vaccinated against coronavirus needs not only to have a fresh antibody test and a fresh PCR test with a negative result, but also to have a normal body temperature. A person should not have any signs of acute respiratory viral infections of any, obvious, including a runny nose.

The professor also noted that it is advisable for the vaccinated to remember whether he had an unwanted reaction to any other vaccine. There are no absolute contraindications for concomitant diseases for vaccination against coronavirus, the expert added.

Fomin also noted that vaccination against coronavirus infection does not exempt from the need to wear medical masks. The professor explained that "not a single vaccine against any virus gives a 100% guarantee, therefore, all anti-epidemic measures that are general in nature, and the mask plays a primary role here, have not been canceled. Even if the second stage of vaccination has passed and even if there is antibodies. "