Scientific research on "omicron" suggests that this variant of the coronavirus penetrates the lungs less than other strains. This was told by the head of the laboratory of genomic engineering at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Pavel Volchkov.

A recent study from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is based on an experiment in which omicron is infected, as well as other strains of coronavirus for comparison, hamsters and mice. The researchers found that the differences were impressive: after a few days, the concentration of the virus in the lungs of animals infected with Omicron was at least ten times lower than in rodents infected with other variants, Volchkov said.

“Based on this study, as well as on a number of others, we can conclude that “omicron” really penetrates less into the lungs,” the scientist noted. – And it is important that scientists obtained these data on hamsters, and not on humans, since in the latter case this could be explained by the presence of antibodies or T-cell immunity, even if the person was asymptomatic. Here the experiment is pure.

And, I think, we can conclude that if the concentration in the lungs of hamsters is 10 times lower, then indirectly we can assume a similar effect of the virus on the lungs of people.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that Omicron had forgotten how to penetrate into the lung tissue.

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