Ouch Gusti! It turns out that vaccines won’t end the pandemic

WE Online, Jakarta –

The government continues to try to get a vaccine Covid-19 both through international cooperation and from domestic development. Then, is that true vaccine can overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

“So what does this vaccine do in this pandemic. Is it true that this vaccine can help reduce the wave of the pandemic to become more gentle or maybe even then disappear? ” said the Immunization Expert from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (UI) as well as the Chair of the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ITAGI), Sri Rezeki S. Hadinegoro in a virtual discussion, Saturday (7/11/2020).

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Sri explained that if you look at historical facts there are several major pandemics that have been passed by countries in the world due to viruses. “We have to look at history, OK? We have several major pandemics. The first pandemic by Coronavirus or influenza virus pandemic. So for the Coronavirus, we know that there is SARS in China and then it also spreads to Singapore and Indonesia. Only in the near future they can stop themselves, and death is not like now, “said Sri.

Both pandemics were due to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia, but neither were they big. Sri explained that seeing the influenza pandemic from 1918 which was known as the Spanish Flu or Spanish Flu was not treated with vaccines. “So there is no vaccine. And just let it sit until herd immunity, until the population immunity is reached for almost 3 years, then it stops, “he said.

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Then, Sri said there was Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu and finally H1N1 from Mexico which then went to America. “Well, then there is a vaccine intervention. So the only historical pandemic that has had a vaccine intervention is H1N1 influenza. At that time the influenza vaccine actually existed, but the strain was different. So, because the platform vaccine already exists, it only remains to add the strain so that it is quickly achieved. In 6 months it can be used and then he can stop, not stop, but only become endemic, that influenza, “he said.

Sri added that the Covid-19 virus is also expected to be similar to H1N1 intervention, namely with vaccines that are given regularly to reduce the number of cases. “As we all know, the influenza pandemic is prevented by vaccines. And how to prevent that vaccine regularly. Well, this is the Covid prediction like this too. So don’t say that the pandemic will be over, “he said.

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