The infectologist Tomas Orduna, member of the expert committee that advises the Government on the coronavirus situation, supported the decision to postpone the application of the second dose of the vaccine since a first inoculation provides an immune response.
“If I have already received one dose, if I have already received an immune stimulus, what I am going to do when I receive the second one, be it one month or four months away, is to trigger an increase in the immune response,” Orduna said in statements to Télam .
On Friday, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, agreed with her peers from the 24 jurisdictions to defer the application of the second doses of vaccines against the coronavirus for three months as a strategy to protect the greatest number of people with some risk condition and reduce the impact of deaths from this disease.
Orduna, head of Tropical and Traveler Medicine at the Muñiz Hospital, explained that “in phases one, two and three” of the vaccine research we have seen how the immune system responds to the first dose and “how much it improves when you give the second dose ”. The only thing that is done, remarked the specialist, is delay the second application to complete the vaccination plan.
Orduna, as pointed out by his peers on the Committee and the ministers of Health from all over the country, said that this decision is due to the lack of vaccines that is registered in most countries. “Today we have a concrete situation, in the world there are no vaccines for the millions of people who live on this planet,” he lamented.
And added that, anyway, there will be a control over how the immune response evolves among people who received a dose.
“Of course it will be controlled, there will be test control groups to see how we are doing and how that group forms antibodies and then everyone will receive (the second dose), because that is clear, that everyone has to receive the second dose, “he said.
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