The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, anticipated that the national government is “Evaluating to apply a booster of all vaccines” against Covid-19 in 2022 for all those who comply one year after receiving the complete schematic. The third dose will be given with the same stepwise criterion according to priority risk groups and essential personnel.
The coronavirus vaccine “It’s like the flu: its immunity is not for life, just like natural immunity if we get sick. Therefore, from the beginning it was known that some reinforcement was going to be needed “said the official to explain the reasons why her portfolio analyzes the possibility of a reinforcement.
The decision would be in tune with the World Health Organization (WHO), which in recent days advised a third dose to avoid outbreaks due to the possibility of new variants of the virus that caused the pandemic. The recommendation was particularly for people who were vaccinated with Sinovac y Sinopharm.
The first vaccine, which is just over 50 percent effective, was not used in Argentina. Yes the second, which has more than 75 percent. For this reason, experts, heads of technical areas of the Ministry of Health and officials from various provinces “are analyzing” how the population’s immunity will continue.
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Why the third dose will be needed
“As they are inactivated vaccines, the immune response, that is, the antibodies it awakens, do not last that long. This is what the WHO said: that the antibodies started to go down. In any case, it is necessary to see how it translates clinically, because with vaccines, sooner or later, the antibodies lower but the body remembers “the virus that affected it and” when it comes into contact with it again, it reacts, “the minister explained during an interview by Urbana Play.
The truth is the application of a third dose is something that has yet to be resolved and he said it clearly: “We are evaluating a booster of all vaccines, because there are people who next year will complete a year of vaccination” complete schematic, he said.
What is being discussed with the experts is to maintain the vaccination criteria that was used during the first stretch of the national campaign: “Begin with the groups defined” as priority, that is, health personnel and immunocompromised people.
To the reinforcement “we will evaluate it before the end of the year, after advancing in the vaccination of adolescents and children ”. The issue will be discussed in the Federal Health Council, the body that brings together all the ministers of that area. And if approved, it will be done in stages and for those who are one year after receiving the complete scheme; that is, the two doses, Vizzotti reiterated.
The sector of the population that was vaccinated with Sinopharm, the vaccine recommended with a booster by the WHO, was mainly those under 50 years of age. Seniors received Astrazeneca or Sputnik V. Other ranks, such as teens, also received Pfizer and Moderna. But equally, the third booster dose will be for everyone.
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