Head of the laboratory of genomic engineering MIPT Pavel Volchkov described RIA Novosti the first stage of testing a vaccine against coronavirus.
According to him, the first phase of testing involves absolutely healthy military volunteers. Volchkov said that if all the volunteers are saying about the lack of side effects, including pain from the injection, local inflammation, fever, then most likely, they had no natural adenoviral infections.
“At the first stage, when the vaccine is tested for toxicity and side effects, need to perfectly healthy people,” — said the expert.
He noted that if you inject such a vaccine to people who had adenovirus infection, which made this vaccine, you can provoke an immune response, accompanied by, including, fever.
Earlier, the Russian volunteers reported that after vaccination from COVID-19 feel well. After the introduction of the vaccine were not revealed any complications or adverse reactions. A physician anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the branch gvkg name N. N. Burdenko Oleg Chalaev said that the results of the examination of volunteers and monitoring of laboratory indicators of any complications or adverse reactions not observed.
