Biologist Skulachev warned that the body of the unvaccinated from COVID-19 ages by 10 years
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Coronavirus infection leads to accelerated aging, and post-ovoid syndrome is similar to the unexpected arrival of old age. This was stated in an interview with Sputnik radio by a molecular biologist, a leading researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University Maxim Skulachev.
He explained that the body of an unvaccinated person who has fallen ill with COVID-19 experiences a load in 10 days, which is usually distributed over ten years. Skulachev noted that this factor is associated with high mortality from coronavirus among the elderly: many of them are not destined to live the next ten years.
At the same time, the specialist admitted that such accelerated aging is reversible. “During the period of COVID-19 and post-COVID, a person feels bad, but then everything returns more or less to normal biological age,” Skulachev said.
The biologist also noted that this process is less pronounced in vaccinated people. This is due to the fact that in vaccinated patients, the disease proceeds in a milder form, he explained.
Earlier, Denis Protsenko, the chief physician of the city clinical hospital No. 40 in Kommunarka, said that rapid fatigue and memory disorders are the main consequences of the coronavirus. He clarified that in patients younger than 60 years, these consequences last on average two to three weeks, and in patients older than 65 years – up to two to three months.
