Polytechnic University Researcher Urges Trust in Vaccines After First Covid-19 Death in Hidalgo

The full-time researcher at the Polytechnic University of Pachuca, Itzcoatl Ordóñez Lozano called on the population to trust vaccines, the possibility of dying from the administration of the biological is very remote, this after knowing that the first death from Covid-19 in Hidalgo it was from a person without having received the respective inoculation.

According to the Hidalgo Health Secretariat (SSH), it was a 45-year-old male, resident of Pachuca, with diabetes and hypertension, lacking an anti-covid vaccination record, who began with signs and symptoms on January 12, admitted to the General Hospital of the capital two days later and the death was recorded on January 19.

The also chemist-bacteriologist-parasitologist said that inoculation implies “small risks” of getting sick but not with the same intensity as if he had not been immunized, and this is what happens with the new vaccines against Covid-19 and its variants.

Currently there are pharmaceutical companies that require two doses, and speaking of others, for example the tetanus dose is a booster every 10 years, to mention one of those included in the Mexican national scheme aimed at newborns, children, youth and older adults.

He explained that when the person is administered the biological product – whether orally or injected -, the content “challenges the body with an agent that will awaken a protective response and we awaken a memory of immunity, which is of two types: antibodies (humoral) and cellular (by macrophages)”.

Depending on the vaccine in question, it develops protection at a certain time in the body, in some cases there are reactions, which are reported to the person who received it so that they do not become alarmed and know what to do or even go to the doctor, it is ” normal,” he said.

He described that to create one, they must go through five stages, which in the case of anticovid in a context of health emergency due to pandemic, they began to produce and distribute the biological when they completed the third stage.

He recommended that although there is freedom to go to get vaccinated or reject them, it is proven that the body or our organism “defends” itself better when you are immunized, as with the anticovid that you no longer get sick seriously and the risk of dying from the new one decreases. coronavirus.

The report for epidemiological week four of 2024 from the federal Ministry of Health in Hidalgo indicated that there are 58 cases of Covid-19 and a single death from this cause.

2024-02-01 00:54:49
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