Pfizer Covid Vaccine Now Available in Privte Pharmacies in León, Guanajuato: Doctors Warn of Multiple Doses

Written in GUANAJUATO on 12/22/2023 · 5:12 p.m.

León.- During the first day of sale of the Pfizer vaccine contra Covid In private pharmacies, doctors warned of the risk because in these establishments they recommended more than one dose.

“In pharmacies the application of updated vaccines has begun, in some of them they tell you that there are 2 or 3 doses.

This information is incorrect, it is only one dose. The two-dose scheme is only for those who have never been vaccinated,” reported internist and infectious disease specialist Francisco Moreno Sánchez, about the vaccines that began to be sold.

In the city of León it was announced that in some branches of the Savings pharmacy y Benavides the vaccine will be sold covid of Pfizer.

He infectologist and former commissioner against influenza In Mexico, Alejandro Macias confirmed that you only have to apply a single dose of the vaccine against COVID.

“There will no longer be revaccinations in the future, all there will be is an annualized vaccine, so ideally that vaccine, like the influenza vaccine, should be updated so that the vaccines that are going to come in now, which are annualized, would be part of that indication to give only one vaccine each year, there is no need to be getting revaccinations,” he reported.

The doctor clarified that so far there is no indication for double or triple vaccination schedules “probably in the future, just as is done with the influenza vaccine, in children under 8 years of age there may be an indication that there is a double vaccination , but until now that standard has not been established.”

Alejandro Macias confirmed that vaccines Covid that will be sold in private pharmacies have to be applied in the same establishments.

“It is not possible to take the vaccines home for several reasons, firstly because the cold chain cannot be ensured, they are vaccines that are very sensitive to changes in temperatures if the cold chain is lost, secondly Instead, they are vaccines that come in doses of 10, the vial comes with 1p vaccines so those that are not used on the same day they are opened must be discarded,” he explained.

2023-12-22 23:12:00
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