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The service professionals Primary Care They ask the Segovian population to maintain caution and act responsibly to prevent the spread of covid, which continues to lead people to the hospital or aggravate the condition of patients with other pathologies. The use of masks indoors continues to be recommended and the invitation to complete vaccination against this infection is maintained.
The health center and office teams are a clear detector of the increase in covid cases or patients with covid-like symptoms that has been occurring since June. The Primary Care nurse and head of the coronavirus vaccination program, Judit de Santos Jiménez, maintains that the increase in those affected began to occur “from the withdrawal of the use of the mask. He specifies that although most cases are mild, the more the number of infections increases, the more the number of serious patients also rises. “We are sending people to the hospital. It’s not just a cold for everyone, there are some who end up in the hospital “, says the nurse who works and knows the activity of the health centers and their emergency services.
Given this situation, the proposal is clear, although summer is a time for relaxation and family and citizen gatherings, it can also be a good time to take advantage of complying with the vaccination guidelines and to refresh the memory of citizens with the motto of ‘The 6M always in Mind’ (Mask, Meters, Hands, Fewer contacts, More ventilation, I stay at home).
Judith de Santoswhich are within the Segovia Health Education Group, remember that the vaccination center is still open and in the Public Library, in the morning, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. There they are putting between 40 and 60 doses a day of first, second and booster doses and also pediatric.
With primary vaccination, around 64 percent of possible deaths from covid in Spain have been avoided, but this protection decreases over time “and it must be reinforced with a booster dose.” “This does not always prevent us from getting infected, but it does mean that the symptoms are less, that we spread less and that the incidence is reduced”, explains Judit de Santos. The health workers, once again, remember that vaccination is an individual decision but also an act of responsibility and social generosity, which helps protect the most vulnerable.
All people older than five years of age or older are called to receive primary vaccination — necessary vaccine schedule (one or more doses) to consider a person immunized —, and the booster dose is given to people 18 years of age or older.
Using the self-appointment system, families can take advantage of the summer holidays to take their children to be vaccinated if they have not done so before, and young people who are reaching 18 years of age also have an opportunity during this period without school activity to reinforce their immunity and collective immunity, according to professionals who are seeing how the seventh wave of the pandemic attacks.
Judit de Santos regrets that “we have forgotten” the protection measures that in previous waves we had incorporated as an almost natural practice: hand washing, social distance and the mask. “The three things that we have engraved in the fire with the pandemic we have to comply with and especially if we are with vulnerable people, chronically ill pregnant women, immunocompromised people. It is very important that we comply with these recommendations.”De Santos says.
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