The campaign of vaccination against coronavirus runs its course. After the elderly who live in residences and their social health workers, it will be the turn of healthcare professionals working on the front line against the coronavirus. In this case, ehe Ministry of Health has recommended that health workers not be vaccinated the same day who are part of the same hospital service due to the possible adverse effects that the vaccine may cause.
This recommendation comes from Ministry of Health, but has been agreed with the autonomous communities. However, those who have the last word on its application are the autonomies themselves, which are the ones that are assigned health powers.
Jorge del Diego, member of the Spanish Society of Preventive Medicine (Sempsph), explains to Vozpópuli that this decision should not cause alarm and that “it makes all the sense”. “From the scientific societies we advise Health that the members of the same hospital service be vaccinated on different days”, he asserts.
“There is adverse reactions that are similar to symptoms of the disease of the coronavirus. The objective is to prevent that, in case many people develop these symptoms, it ends quarantining all staff on the same team“, keep going.
In short, the main motivation behind this recommendation from Health is to prevent hospital services from being left without workers, something that sIt would be a catastrophe under normal circumstances, but more so now in the heat of the rise of the third wave of covid-19.
Side effects of the Pfizer vaccine
The Ministry of Health indicates that “all medications, including vaccines, can trigger mild adverse reactions (such as fever or pain at the injection site) or, less frequently, more serious ones (such as encephalitis, vasculitis, neuralgia, etc. .) “.
However, in the vaccine leaflet, collected in the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps), are specified as “very common side effects”: pain and swelling at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, chills and fever. Common effects include redness at the injection site and nausea.
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