When Erdogan challenged him that the number Putin gave was low, the Russian insisted, “No, it’s a high level. “I have high titers,” Putin said, referring to the measurement used to describe the concentration of antibodies in the blood.
MOSCOW (AP) - When Russians talk about the coronavirus over dinner or in hair salons, the conversation often turns to “antitela,” the Russian word for antibodies - the proteins produced by the body to fight infection.Įven President Vladimir Putin referred to them this week in a conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bragging about why he avoided infection even though dozens of people around him caught the coronavirus, including someone who spent a whole day with the Kremlin leader.
