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The death of Mauro Viale: they recommend not vaccinating those infected with Covid, but not because it worsens the picture

2021-04-12T18:46:47.121Z


Infectologists consulted by Clarín explained the effects of the vaccine and ruled out that it could enhance the disease. But those infected must wait between 3 and 6 months to receive the injection.


Penelope Canonico

04/12/2021 15:17

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 04/12/2021 3:34 PM

The journalist Mauro Viale, who died from Covid this Sunday, received the diagnosis of his illness 

two days after

having applied the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

That is, the disease was already incubating at the time of inoculation.

Clarín

consulted experts to clarify whether the vaccine administered while infected could worsen the condition.

Jorge Geffner, senior researcher at Conicet, points out that

there is no scientific evidence

that encourages us to think that, when an asymptomatic covid condition is taking place, the administration of any of the Covid vaccines worsens the condition.

“Immunizing someone who is suffering from an infection can never make the disease worse.

It is advisable not to do it so that the symptoms are not confused ”, the professional understands.

For his part, Guillermo Docena, biochemist, immunologist and principal investigator of Conicet, adds: "It has been shown that the vaccine does not worsen the disease, but

there were adverse reactions such

as thrombosis whose cause is still unknown."

Meanwhile, Angela Gentile, a medical epidemiologist, emphasizes that all Covid vaccines are inactivated, of non-replicative antigens.

“They can be applied in patients with underlying disease and those who are immunocompromised.

A vaccine of these characteristics

cannot potentiate or cause disease

.

Mauro had an

atypical

clinical course

”, he indicates.

“If the patient presents symptoms or suspects that he may be infected due to close contact, it

is recommended not to vaccinate

until he is discharged from the hospital.

This is not because the vaccine worsens the condition but because the

immunological effect

generated by the inoculation is already given by the disease itself, ”says Lautaro De Vedia.

former president of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases (SADI).

In this direction, Daniela Hozbor, Conicet principal investigator and vaccine specialist, maintains: “If you are studying Covid, it is not convenient to get vaccinated for collective and individual reasons.

In the first instance

, you cannot mobilize

because you are a source of infection and, secondly, the vaccine will be deprived of its beneficial effect when it is administered in an organism that

already presents an immune response

as a consequence of the disease ”.

how long to wait

How long should you wait?

Gentile clarifies the panorama by explaining that previously it was advisable to get vaccinated once you had received the epidemiological discharge, after 10 days after the termination of the disease had elapsed.

“The rule changed 15 days ago and it was decided that, after the covid with a positive PCR, it is necessary to wait

3 to 6 months

to indicate the first dose because the disease offers protective antibodies (defer the post-disease vaccination because it is assumed that in that lapse the individual is protected), he argues.

Should a strategy be considered to

test the population

before receiving the vaccine?

Arnaldo Casiró, Head of the Infectious Diseases Service at Teodoro Álvarez Hospital de Agudos, advises against the alternative because he considers that the measure could

imply the collapse of the system

.

"They should be used in symptomatic patients with close contacts," he concludes.

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Source: clarin

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