VTsIOM: Less than half of Russians were vaccinated against covid

According to the latest VTsIOM poll conducted last week, only 42% of Russians were vaccinated against covid. The survey data was provided by Mikhail Mamonov, head of the political analysis practice of VTsIOM, noting that these figures correspond to the information of the government headquarters for the fight against coronavirus.

According to RIA Novosti, Mamonov also added that another 27% of the respondents assured that they were going to be vaccinated. Thus, 69% of Russians have either received or are planning to get vaccinated.

29% of respondents deny the need for vaccination. At the same time, 12% of them declare that they did not suffer from a cowdiom, 9% may have been ill, but are not sure about it, but 8% were definitely ill.

We will remind, in November in South Africa and Botswana revealed a new strain of coronavirus, called “omicron”. Those infected complained of a strong feeling of fatigue, but they did not have a loss of taste or smell.

The Inspectorate of the World Health Organization (WHO), which visited the homeland of the coronavirus in China, in its report called the hypothesis of the natural onset of a new disease the most likely. The source of the pandemic was most likely transmitted to humans from bats through an intermediary animal. More details – here.

Experts assume that omicron will spread much faster than other strains, and that it is able to bypass the immune protection of both those who have been ill and vaccinated, but the research has not yet been completed.

At the same time, Petr Chumakov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Cell Proliferation Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, does not really exclude the scenario of artificial creation of an omicron strain of coronavirus, which he is talking about spoke earlier, but he has no evidence for this theory. Chumakov clarified that the appearance of the omicron has many oddities. The most incomprehensible thing, he said, is why this strain has a “three amino acid insert.” This “insert” is characteristic of the seasonal coronavirus, which causes only a mild cold. “How this insert got there is difficult to imagine,” the expert emphasized. And he added that now the technologies are already so advanced that “it could have been done artificially.”

Chumakov stressed that if someone decided to make an anti-clot vaccine with weakened properties, which would end the epidemic, he would have acted that way. That is why the version about the artificial origin of the omicron strain arose. But “pointing a finger at someone and saying that this is exactly the case would be tantamount to paranoid suspicion.” “No one was catching anyone’s hand,” Chumakov assured. And he added that, nevertheless, such a hypothesis is “not a fantasy” and has a right to exist.