José Gonzalez, infectologist doctor of the Jackson Memorial Hospital and professor of University of Miamigave details this Saturday about the efficacy and safety of the vaccine against COVID-19 of the laboratory Modernwhose application of the fourth dose in our country would have generated adverse effects to some people, according to the Medical College of Peru.
As specified to the Rotary air-night edition from RPP Newsthis compound was developed in USA and is currently applied in that country with the approval of the corresponding bodies. He added that this vaccine has the same technology as the laboratorio Pfizer and that even, according to some studies, shows a higher percentage of the formation of antibodies to that inoculation.
“It is a vaccine that has the same technology as Pfizer, I mean it belongs to messenger RNA technology and has shown great efficacy and a good safety profile. At the moment it is one of the main vaccines that we have locally and the results have been very satisfactory,” said the doctor.
“At the moment we know that the vaccine Modern It has a great efficiency and also an activity against variants and specifically against the omicron variantthat is why the vaccine is being indicated locally Modern for those over 18 years of age in the United States and a booster dose, the third dose or first booster dose, and also a fourth dose for the population are also being indicated,” he added.
About booster dose
Regarding the application of the booster dose of the Moderna’s vaccinethe doctor indicated that the laboratory itself carried out a comparative study with doses of 100 micrograms versus 50 micrograms and it was observed that there was a higher percentage of adverse effects, as has occurred in our country, according to the Medical College of Peru.
He specified that these effects such as fever, fatigue, chills or pain in the inoculation area occurred transiently, to a mild and moderate degree for most cases, while some were severe and “practically no serious adverse effect”. However, he said that this information could not determine that the vaccine could be dangerous in the long term.
He also explained that currently USA The FDA and CDC have authorized the vaccine booster Modernbut with a dose of 50 micrograms and not 100 as would have been applied in our country.
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