Covid-19 survivors will also be vaccinated.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON – The United States is currently rolling out vaccination Covid-19. There are two vaccine those that have received emergency permits to use, namely those developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
What about people who have recovered from Covid-19, do they need to be vaccinated? The answer is, yes.
At this time, it is still unknown how the immune systems of Covid-19 survivors respond to vaccines, especially among “long-hauler“, that is, survivors who still have symptoms for weeks and months after their diagnosis. However, there is a small risk of getting the vaccine injected.
“The general recommendation is to keep getting the vaccine, even if you’ve been previously infected,” said Dr. David Thomas, a professor of medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. NBC News.
Thomas admitted, there are several questions whose answers have not been revealed about vaccines and Covid-19 survivors. However, from what has been known so far, people who have recovered from infection with the new type of corona virus still need to get a vaccine.
Reinfection with Covid-19 is considered rare. However, if natural antibody levels decrease over time, a person may become infected more than once.
Doctors and infectious disease experts agree that most people should be vaccinated, even though they may have natural protective immunity. In most people who survive Covid-19, vaccines can even increase immunity from the initial infection.
This is a precedent with several precedents. Healthy adults over the age of 50, for example, are still advised to get the shingles vaccine even if they have had chickenpox or shingles before.
“I was immunized because I wanted extra immunity to protect against herpes zoster disease that recurred at a later date. Even though I was previously infected and had a certain amount of immunity, I chose to get a vaccine to double the protection so that it makes me safer”, said Thomas about his decision yet. it’s been time to get the shingles vaccine.
“So far, there is no evidence that a vaccine will not be safe for people with Covid-19, but more research is needed,” said Dr. Sarah Fortune, chair of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
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