Doctors José Joaquín Puello, a renowned Dominican neurosurgeon, and José Brea del Castillo, president of the Dominican Society of Vaccinology, highlighted the effectiveness of the bivalent vaccine in avoiding hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19.
Specialists understand that the fourth or fifth booster of the virus vaccine in the country should be done with the bivalent one, which is already available from the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna, and which has shown good efficacy in populations applied in the United States.
Specialists agreed that the Dominican population should continue to complete the three-dose programs with the existing vaccines and complete the reinforcement with the bivalent one, once it is available in the country. Dr. Brea del Castillo said that this is the best time for people over the age of 65 or with a chronic condition such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, obesity, among others, to complete the third dose or apply the fourth booster .
“Right now there is an increase in cases that is reflected not only in the Dominican Republic but on the continent and it is well evidenced that those who arrive at the hospital or die are those who have only two doses or have none,” said the vaccine expert Understand that the ideal vaccine for a fourth dose is the bivalent, which is composed of the ancestral and the new per omicron.
