HERMOSILLO, Sonora.- The Abdala vaccine against Covid-19 is effective against Pirola and other variants and subvariants of the coronavirus, making it a safe and effective option to be protected against this disease, said immunologist Alberto Monteverde Maldonado.
Alberto Monteverde Maldonado,
Immunologist doctor.
“The Abdala vaccine is a subunit vaccine that uses technology prior to RNA, like Pfizer or Moderna do, but that does not mean that it is bad.
Until now, with all the variants of the original virus that was discovered in Wuhan, there is no study that demonstrates that the strains or subvariants are immune to the existing vaccines so far, all of them, from the first Pfizer that was applied to the Abdala vaccine, they work to protect against Covid 19,” he indicated.
“The studies that have been done so far have shown that in patients who received the vaccine for the first time and then received their boosters, they demonstrated quite high protection,” he explained.
IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY
Regarding whether it is effective against the new variants of the virus, he highlighted that all the vaccines available so far are and although some laboratories may say otherwise, research to date shows that they all develop an immunological memory in the human body to avoid symptoms. serious from Covid.
“When they talk about protection, laboratories mean that there are antibodies blocking the ‘spike’ protein of each strain in a vaccine, that is, in a laboratory they take antibodies produced with the vaccine, they put it in contact with the ‘spike’ protein. ‘ and see if there is agglutination, if there isn’t they say it doesn’t protect.
The specialist pointed out that laboratories use very rudimentary tests to verify something very complex and that is where the error of that assertion lies.
And while it is true that so far the only one that has shown to have antibodies against Pirola is Pfizer, it does not mean that the other vaccines cannot protect people, he explained, since the protein of the original virus remains and that is why they all work to avoid deaths or serious illnesses from this pathogen.
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2023-12-25 14:35:38
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