The president of the Faculty of Medicine, Patrick Half, indicated at Cooperative that the bivalent vaccine against Covid “protects us” from new subvariant of Omicron BF.7, prevalent in the Asian giant.
The doctor said that the large vaccination campaign conducted in Chile is “clearly one of the main tools that has been successful in managing the pandemic”.
In this sense, Meza said The Cooperative Journal that he collapse of China’s healthcare system “should make us recover our memory and know that we must avoid such situations”; the vaccine is one of the ways to do it.
“The call we make to people who have a bivalent annual dose indication is get vaccinated as soon as possible. In this way we will reduce the risk of falling seriously ill and requiring hospitalization,” said the president of Colmed.
Furthermore, he reported that the subvariant has shown in China “that it is very contagious, much more than the previous variants.” However, “fortunately so far it has not been shown to produce more severe symptoms; This is good news.”
Therefore, he stressed that the effort must be concentrated, first, on avoiding infections through hand washing; the wearing of masks in front of people with symptoms and doing outdoor activities, and secondly, serious illnesses.
