The antibodies helped me get through the disease easily, admits Sergei Satanovsky
The Russian journalist of Deutsche Welle, who told how he was immunized with Sputnik V in Moscow, announced that he had become infected.
Sergei Satanovsky received both the first and second doses of the drug in December. The tests for “Sputnik V” will be officially completed only in May. But Satanovsky decided to find out in advance about the results of his participation in the tests and to take an antibody test.
Here is his story:
“Even before the test I felt good, I passed both immunizations with almost no side effects. So I decided on New Year’s Eve to visit my 74-year-old grandmother not far from St. Petersburg. Although I had no symptoms, I did a PCR test before leaving – the result was negative.
My grandmother has been living in the countryside for a year. She avoids the big city because of the pandemic. Heated by stove, once a week shopping in the nearby town. But even 300 kilometers from St. Petersburg failed to escape the coronavirus.
On New Year’s Day she started coughing, and continued the next day. We did not immediately think of coronavirus, but assumed that she had a cold due to sub-zero temperatures. On the third of January I left for St. Petersburg. In the evening I had a temperature of 37.4 degrees and my throat started to hurt. My grandmother had similar symptoms.
For me, however, they passed in two days, while my grandmother had a fever on the third day and felt weak. She called a doctor to do a PCR test and it was positive. He did not have to be admitted to hospital, but spent the illness quite severely: three weeks of fever, fatigue and high blood pressure. I did another PCR test – again with a negative result.
The antibodies helped me get through the disease mildly.
According to Vadim Liniev, director of the laboratory at Jadkevich Hospital, where I was vaccinated, the reaction of an immunized person to the virus depends on the viral load. If you come in contact with a person who drives the disease lightly, you may not feel anything. And if you come in contact with someone who is more severely attacked by the virus, the disease will pass more easily after immunization.
In my case, that was obviously exactly what had happened. At my grandmother’s I came in contact with a seriously infected person, but I got through the disease more easily thanks to the antibodies. My grandmother became more seriously ill, but in the meantime she is recovering.
A few days after my return from St. Petersburg to Moscow, I tested for antibodies with the following result: 310 relative units per milliliter of blood. I thought that this result was very good, which was confirmed by Dmitry Denisov, medical director of the Moscow laboratory “Helix”:
“You have a pretty high number of antibodies compared to other vaccinated people and compared to those who have spent Covid-19.”
The fact is that the antibodies found in me are the result of immunization. After illness, they could not form in such a volume at the time of the test.
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