Bogotá starts fourth dose vaccination only with Pfizer | BLU mornings

In accordance with the modifications to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, in which the application of fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine people with comorbidities and autoimmune diseases, Bogotá has already started with a dose of Pfizer, which is the one that has high availability throughout the city.

“From this moment, these people can go to the different vaccination points and receive a second booster or a fourth dose for added protection. What type of vaccines are given to immunosuppressed people in the second booster? Only RNA vaccines. To put it clearly, only Pfizer”, mentioned the Secretary of Health, Alejandro Gómez.

Gómez detailed in Mañanas BLU that the people who can receive the second booster dose or fourth vaccine are those with autoimmune diseases, leukemia, myeloma, lymphomas undergoing chemotherapy, primary immunodeficiencies, solid organ transplants and hematopoietic progenitors.

On the other hand, It was also authorized to combine vaccines for all people who have their first booster and they need a second application. It is important to mention that children between 3 and 11 years old can only receive for first and second doses Sinovac brand vaccine.

For those of legal age, the supply of the second doses is as follows: according to the availability of vaccines:

1. Vaccinated with a dose of Pfizer: possibility of second dose Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Janssen.
2. Vaccinated with a dose of Moderna: possibility of second dose Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Janssen.
3. Vaccinated with one dose of AstraZeneca: possibility of second dose Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Janssen.
4. Vaccinated with one dose of Sinovac: possibility of second dose Sinovac, Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Janssen.
5. Vaccinated with a dose of Janssen: does not apply because the vaccine is a single dose.

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