If vaccination is going well in our regions, Dr. Harvey explains that even when a citizen receives his first dose, he must not slack off in his behavior:
“A single dose protects us very well against serious illness, but we can still get an infection. We must continue to adopt the usual precautions that we all know so as not to give it in spite of ourselves to someone else. ”
Obviously the message has passed rather well to vaccinated people.
“Even if we are vaccinated, it is not certain that we do not catch it. So that we continue to pay attention, we have to protect ourselves, ”says a citizen.
“Anyway, it’s not been long enough since I had it, it takes 3 weeks to be effective and then it’s not 100% sure. You have to be careful”, adds a man.
“It’s not a reason to stop even if you are vaccinated”, concludes another citizen.
20,000 new vaccination places are opening today in Bas-Saint-Laurent for those aged 60 and over, while in Charlevoix the 2th dose is administered today in the CHSLDs of Bellerive in La Malbaie, Clermont and Saint-Siméon.
And what to say to people who are still reluctant to get vaccinated?
“Currently in Quebec, there is a 1.6% chance of catching COVID in the next 100 days and the risk of thrombosis, of clots in the blood vessels, is 1 to 100,000, 1 to 250,000 times. We are in an order of 1000 times, ”says the doctor.
Concerning the Indian variant, which is currently being talked about a lot, it is a kind of combination of mutations of the British, Brazilian or South African strains.
“It gives a virus which theoretically can also be more contagious, but at this stage, it’s a bit early. We have not scientifically demonstrated that it had this property, ”continues Pierre Harvey.
According to the scientist, vaccines will have to be continually reviewed and modified to adapt to mutations in the virus.
“It is more than likely that we will not be able to eliminate this virus from the planet in the next few years. One should expect to have to modify the vaccine on a regular basis at the interval which can vary, it can be 4 months as it can be in years ”adds the doctor.
Still according to the infectious disease specialist, the faster the population is vaccinated, the more the risk of the appearance of new variants will be reduced.
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