If you go back three years, you will realize that many things have changed. And not necessarily because of the inexorable passage of time, but because it was then that we experienced an unusual event for all of us: confinement due to the pandemic. And although we now enjoy freedom and have recovered part of that normality, there are many aspects that have stayed with us since COVID, among them, teleworking.
But not only that has remained with us, because there is also a higher vaccination rate among people. And since the pandemic began, many people, especially the most vulnerable, have chosen to get vaccinated and avoid, to a greater extent, the virus. But, where is this vaccination now that we are facing winter? That’s what we asked to Dr. Carmen Álvarez Domínguez, professor and immunologist researcher at the International University of La Rioja.
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To begin with, he begins to tell us that this vaccination campaign that has begun in some autonomous communities (both for COVID and flu) is currently aimed at those over 60 years of age and those who “they have a chronic disease, immunodeficiency or cancer patients, pregnant women or for health personnel and community services.”
Who is recommended to vaccinate? With what type of vaccine?
In principle, the doctor explained to us that it is not necessary to vaccinate children as long as they are over six years old. For these minors, It would be good to vaccinate them against the flu, because their “serious colds” are reduced.
Be careful, the recommendation also extends to adults if “they feel vulnerable, although, like any vaccine, it has to be voluntary. When these most vulnerable groups pass, it is opened to the rest of the groups, although it is true that there is an age group where it may be well indicated” he explained.
But are the vaccines we had at the beginning adapted to the new variants? “Pfizer’s has adapted to new variants, to As they advance, Moderna will also have theirs, although the rest do not have them available,” said the doctor.
If we have ever been vaccinated, are we immunized even if we do not have a booster dose?
As the doctor recalls, “we are all vaccinated, and those people for whom vaccines are not advised, are also protected” he explained.
“They protect us against new variables, we see the data from the first vaccinations and yes these people have sufficient antibody immunity, but there is also a long-term problem, it is also very high and we are protected,” he explained.
He also wanted to emphasize that, indeed, there may be side effects in vaccines, but “that does not mean that they are not effective or safe, “But they only show data on vaccines, not on ibuprofen, we are not interested in attacking.”
In any case, the recommendation is to vaccinate those over 60 years of age and children under six years of age.
2023-10-01 09:52:03
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