Dr. Huerta: Vaccinating risk groups is an incentive 1:21
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The coronavirus vaccine is already being applied in the United Kingdom.
One of the doubts that arise about the vaccine is whether a person who receives the dose could still be contagious by coronavirus.
According to America's infectious diseases leader Dr. Anthony Fauci, that could be a possibility, but it will come out in time, once more people get the vaccine.
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Hello, I am Dr. Elmer Huerta and this is your daily dose of information on the new coronavirus.
Information that we hope will be useful to take care of your health and that of your family.
Today we will see what objectives the application of the coronavirus vaccine in a person pursues.
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The arrival of the coronavirus vaccine
There is no doubt that the advent of vaccines has shed a light at the end of the tunnel in what it means to control the pandemic.
At the time of writing this episode, and in record time, there are already two vaccines ready to be approved for emergency quality in the United States, and one of them is already being applied in the United Kingdom.
Undoubtedly, the long-awaited vaccines will be exceptional allies for the control of the pandemic, but it is also important to know that they will not be the only element, that as if by magic, end the pandemic.
But there are several questions that remain to be answered regarding how vaccines work.
Doubts about the coronavirus vaccine
For example, in addition to preventing the vaccinated person from becoming infected with the new coronavirus in the vast majority of cases (something that has already been demonstrated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines), and preventing serious illness and hospitalizations (something that It was also demonstrated with Moderna's vaccine), would it be possible that the vaccines, even if they do not prevent the person from acquiring the new coronavirus, give rise to a milder disease that allows the individual to continue to infect?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, answered that question this way:
Fauci: Vaccine could make it difficult to spread covid-19 0:44
Then adding: «what the phase 3 study tries to observe is clearly detectable or visible disease, but it cannot be ruled out that a person develops a disease with almost no symptoms, but with sufficient viral load in their airways and that it can spread".
He ended his interview saying that: "it is possible that some people still have the virus in their respiratory tract, but due to the effect of the vaccine the amount of virus is so small that it cannot spread."
In short, we are still learning the secrets of vaccines, and it is a matter of time and analysis of the data that is collected in phase 3 studies, so that we can have more knowledge about how they work.
While we wait for the vaccines to reach the health center closest to our home, it is important that we continue to do everything possible to prevent infections.
Manage the five elements that determine the risk of contagion: the space in which we move, the closeness of the people in that space, the time we spend in that space and with those people and whether or not we use a mask and wash our hands or not, they will be decisive in preventing infection.
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