[On the issues of additional public support of workers involved in medical care support during period of COVID-19].

The article considers issues of organizational and legal progress of social protection of workers involved in medical care during period of COVID-19. The purpose of the study is to analyze regulatory legal documents that define state guarantees that provide social protection for persons involved in the provision of medical care during COVID-19. The attempt was made to analyze international and national information on relevant morbidity, mortality and disability of health care workers, but respective data was not readily available in open admission. The analysis of international documents (the WHO, CDC, JHU reports), public documents of the Russian Federation, information from official websites of the President of the Russian Federation and the executive authorities of the Russian Federation (state reports on sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in 2020-2022) demonstrated the following. The whole world faced with the problem of protecting health care workers from contamination with new corona-virus infection. In the Russian Federation, unprecedented measures were taken to ensure social protection for this category of workers, including provision of additional social benefits.

[TO THE QUESTION OF IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS OF PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL CARE IN THE CONDITIONS OF COVID-19].

Immunoprophylaxis is one of the pressing health problems. The safety of those involved in the provision of medical care acquired particular importance during the period of the introduction of the high alert regime. Regulatory norms determine the need for the prevention of infectious processes, including among this group of workers. However, at the moment there are not fully regulated organizational and legal aspects, including the issue of vaccination against coronavirus infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.