Luis Alexánder Moscoso, Deputy Minister of Health, announced that people who are clinically confirmed to have deficits in their defenses will receive a reinforcement of the covid-19 vaccine, in accordance with the recommendations of the Vaccine Advisory Council.
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According to the vice minister, in conversation with EL TIEMPO, this group of people, to which, among others, the post-transplanted ones belong, with primary immunodeficiencies and those who receive treatments with drugs that block their immune system, may receive one more dose than the vaccine applied to them one month after completing their scheme.
In dialogue with Up Bogotá, from Citytv, Moscoso additionally assured: “Other important population groups were studied, we are waiting for some confirmations and studies that we hope will be published this or the next week and at the latest within two weeks to have complete studies.”
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He also clarified that the application of this third dose It will depend on the studies that show evidence to prioritize certain groups. “Today studies show that populations at risk can benefit from that third dose and we start with people who have immunosuppression and we are going to move forward with groups at risk. For now, the evidence suggests that they could be the over 70 years, but let’s wait for the conclusion of the analysis. ”
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In Colombia, 32’463,196 doses have been applied with a cut-off as of August 19, 2021.
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It is reinforcement it is already a reality in countries such as the Dominican Republic, Israel, France, Uruguay and Russia.
On USAFor example, it was confirmed that the third dose application process will start on September 20.
“Available data clearly show that protection against Sars-CoV-2 infection begins to decline over time after the first doses of the vaccine,” according to a joint statement from senior officials, including the director of the Centers. of Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, and Janet Woodcock, acting director of the United States Drug Administration (FDA).
The World Health Organization (WHO) had requested, at the beginning of August, a global moratorium to a third dose despite the rapid advance of infections by the delta vaccine. This request had been made in order that there would be enough vaccines to immunize at least 10% of the population of each country and thus protect those who are at greater risk of developing a serious disease and dying.
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“We understand the concern of governments to protect their populations from the delta variant, but we cannot accept that countries that have already used the majority of vaccine supplies, use even more, while the world’s most vulnerable populations remain without. protection “, said at the time the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The organization has also repeatedly mentioned that to make this type of decision it is important to take into account the consistent data on whether this reinforcement is really necessary. “If we do not have this very clear, we can enter a cycle in which we will always be unsure about what we have to do,” stressed the head of the WHO Immunization Department, Kate O’Brien.
The debate over the third dose
With the advance of the delta variable, the discussion about how necessary a third dose would be to reinforce the schedules of those who were already fully immunized against it began to increase. covid-19.
In a analysis published by this newspaper it had been mentioned that while Chile, Germany and Israel have announced plans to apply these reinforcements, and the United Arab Emirates, China and Russia are already administering them, other countries insist that their priority – amid the shortage of biologicals – is to ensure that a proportion of the population can access at least at two o’clock dose to reach the minimum levels that allow a herd immunity.
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We cannot accept that countries that have already used the majority of vaccine supplies use even more.
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Despite this, the few essays who have tried booster doses infer that the third doses of vaccines developed by Modern, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Sinovac levels of “neutralizing” antibodies increase when given several months after the second dose. However, researchers such as Luis Fernando Alarcón, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, assure that this is very fragile evidence to support the general application of a third dose and that everything indicates that they are not necessary for the most people.
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Carlos Francisco Fernández, ELTIEMPO.COM and CityTv
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