SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS Review article VACCINATION AGAINST COVID 19: PREJUDICE, PRECONCEPTION AND TRUTH
A brief overview of cases of coronavirus infections, a history of study and a modern classif cation of coronaviruses is presented. Statistics on the prevalence of a new coronavirus infection in the Russian Federation as a whole and in the Astrakhan region in particular, as well as in a number of other countries, were considered. The historical aspect of vaccination has been analyzed, examples of the effectiveness of vaccine prophylaxis in both children and adults in relation to the new coronavirus infection are shown. Both arguments and counterarguments of the need for vaccine prophylaxis are presented, which affect the issues of pathogenesis, severity of the course of coronavirus infection, modification of the vaccine depending on the detection of new strains of coronaviruses, vector technologies that contribute to the rapid creation of a vaccine, the effectiveness of existing vaccines in Russia.The methods of combating coronavirus infection are outlined - information and educational activities carried out by volunteer doctors, the creation of test systems for multiplex PCR.