Old Soviet technique will curb coronavirus – scientist
The polio vaccine can extinguish the WHO-declared COVID-19 pandemic.
This was stated in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets by Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology named after. V.A. Engelhardt RAS Petr Chumakov.
According to him, interference, when one virus is suppressed by another, can help cope with the current epidemic.
“If one virus that does not cause symptoms of disease is introduced into the human body, then there will be no place for another, even the most “evil” one. In the early 70s, during the seasonal epidemic of a new influenza virus, we proposed a similar option. Namely, we immunized the population with the polio vaccine (you were probably given such sweet drops on a piece of sugar at school). So after it, people did not get the flu for two weeks. The incidence then dropped by 3-4 times, which is even better than with the use of influenza vaccines. The same method could be used now,” Chumakov said.
Practice has shown, he says, that the live polio vaccine can resist for a short time against any pathogenic viruses.
“When we encounter new infections for which there are no drugs or vaccines, this tool can be used to protect certain groups of the population. For example, those who are on the front line of the fight against the virus, the same doctors in hospitals,” the scientist noted.
He also emphasized that the polio vaccine will help an infected but asymptomatic person overcome a new virus that has entered but has not developed.
But this method, the publication’s interlocutor says, is not used now.
“We are fighting for this, writing letters to the Ministry of Health. The fact is that these studies took place so long ago that today, apparently, there are no one left except me for the specialists who participated in them. Now I am actively sending out my previous articles on this matter to our officials,” Chumakov said.
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