“We are all going to get infected.” The number two of the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Products, Agustín Portela, He is clear about it and emphasizes that the vaccine does not prevent contagion, but that the covid shows its worst side as a disease. As explained by Cadena Ser, Portela has indicated in a conference at the Royal Academy of Sciences that it is most likely that we are all infected, whether or not we are vaccinated.
Portela, in fact, considers that the normal thing will be for all of us to “get infected and Let’s pass the disease at home, in a mild way, like a cold or pharyngitis. “
In addition, he also the head of the Biotechnology Service of the AEMPS warns that the elderly will continue to die from the coronavirus, and that this does not mean that the vaccine does not work: “We are not going to end the mortality from coronavirus in older people even if they have the complete vaccination schedule. Covid is, for them, “the last straw for their health,” they ditch, showing their support for the third dose. “With the third dose we are seeing that there is a rise in antibodies. That is my prediction. People with many pathologies and the elderly will have to be given successive pricks to have a very high level of antibodies and very high in mucous membranes “, he indicated.
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This same Wednesday, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that the vaccine presentation has agreed to propose a third dose against the coronavirus for those over 60 years of age and for health and social health personnel.
Given the requests of some regional presidents to increase measures against the pandemic, it has opted to “continue with the vaccination without pause” as the best remedy against the rebound in cases of coronavirus in Spain, which in any case has recalled that they are far from the from other European countries.
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