With the end of the masks and other restrictions against him coronavirus They have considered the pandemic to be over, although not the disease. The Sars-CoV-2 is still among us and the seventh wave is leaving a trail of contagious in its wake, even when only those over 60 and vulnerable people are tested.
As of May 9, the cumulative incidence from COVID-19 It was among those over 60 years of age with 746 positives per 100,000 inhabitants. At the beginning of the year, the omicron variant infected six million Spaniards and now in June the 5-month period recommended by Health to receive a booster dose after being infected is fulfilled.
Morning News has interviewed the virologist José Antonio L. Guerrero to try to clarify all the doubts that arise in the current context.
If I have already been infected with COVID-19, is the immunity I have generated sufficient or should I get a booster dose of the vaccine?
José Antonio L. Guerrero explains that “there are all kinds of casuistry” and that is that there are people who became infected during the vaccination guidelines, there are other people who became infected as soon as they received the second or third dose and there are people who after a couple of months after getting the second puncture they got infected and could not get the booster dose and now, after 5 months, they doubt how to act.
Guerrero assures that the “optimal” thing would be to analyze the immune system of each person, although he acknowledges that this “would be unfeasible.” He therefore remembers that those healthy people with a healthy immune system “What has been shown is that an infection after having a complete vaccination schedule, at that time of 2 doses, because it generates a state of ‘superimmunity‘ which may even be greater than that generated with 3 doses.”
But he clarifies “if even after 6 months you decide to get a booster dose, you are not doing anything wrong either.”
new vaccines
Guerrero explains that they are developing new vaccines “supposedly adapted to the new variants that perhaps generate a much more versatile response than continuing to insist with the vaccine dose that they gave us in December 2020 “.
For this virologist the “ideal would be customize coronavirus vaccines because there are all kinds of casuistry but I am very afraid that this is not feasible for the general population”.
Guerrero recalls that “the important thing is that those people with two doses who have not been infected do go to the third dose and that vulnerable and elderly people will have to wait for what the Ministry decides from the fall with that possible alleged fourth dose“.
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