The Ministry of Health announced a few 24 hours ago the first two dead who had managed to be vaccinated with the first dose against Covid1.
SigmaLive spoke with the member of the epidemiological team of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Zoe-Dorothea Pana and the professor of Pharmacology Dr. Nikola Dieti, who explained why these two people lost their lives while I was taking the first dose of the vaccine.
It is noted that this is a 71-year-old man with underlying diseases, with a history of vaccination (1st dose) who ended up in the Intensive Care Unit of Nicosia General Hospital and a 69-year-old woman, with underlying diseases, with a history of vaccination (1st dose) that ended in the Intensive Care Unit of the General Hospital of Nicosia.
Introductory Dr. Pana explained that the two people had been infected with the virus before being vaccinated and the first dose was not enough to protect them. He added that the two people showed symptoms in the following days.
In addition, Dr. Pana clarified that it takes at least a week for the body to develop some immunity, a time that the two people who eventually ended up did not have.
"We must be careful not to become infected even after the first dose of the vaccine, because we are not completely protected," D. Pana concluded.
For his part, Dr. He explained that a single dose of the vaccine makes up 50% of a vaccine. "The first dose prepares the body to receive the second dose."
He added that several foreign studies have reported that the first dose is not enough to protect humans from the virus. He went on to clarify that with both doses of the vaccine, the protection rate is 90%. "There is a 10% who will be infected with the virus. If we estimate that 40.000 people were vaccinated with both doses, then the cases we have in Cyprus are minimal ".
Finally, he said that vaccines are a very useful tool but by themselves can not completely reduce the virus. "Measures are also needed to prevent the virus."
Source: Sigmalive