COVID-19 | Study concludes that combining Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines is safe

The third booster dose applied by the Dominican Republic with Pfizer serum, combined with two doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 of Sinovac, is “safe” and “does not produce major events”, according to the results of a study on this matter presented this Thursday in the country.

Research on the effectiveness of the booster dose, conducted between the Dominican Republic and Yale University with samples of 1,600 people, concluded that

None of the participants said the medical adviser to the Executive Power for the response to the coronavirus, Eddy Pérez Then, at a press conference with President Luis Abinader and other authorities at the National Palace.

While some had pain at the injection site, others had fever or fatigue, “Less than two months after the application the antibodies rose a lot”, he claimed.

In the people participating in the study, those higher than the values ​​prior to receiving the booster dose.

The immune reaction decreased from 28 days, but 70 days after receiving the third dose, the one before the third dose.

Pérez Then, however, refrained from commenting on the effects that this could have on the new variant of the pandemic, omicron, a subject for which the authorities will meet in the next few hours.

The Dominican Republic began to apply the booster dose to people who had been inoculated with Sinovac or Astrazeca in July, in the middle of the third wave of COVID-19 in the national territory, and the authorities were convinced today that

The country went ahead with the plan even though the World Health Organization (WHO) had asked countries not to do so, for lack of scientific evidence and to avoid unnecessary hoarding of vaccines.

With two doses of Sinovac but with the booster from Pfizer “Is wildly tall“Said Sten H. Vermund, Dean of Public Health and Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine.

The Dominican Republic’s plan to reinforce the vaccine against covid-19 “It is a successful and efficient strategy for all the people who received Sinovac and AstraZeneca”, added.

For his part, President Abinader once again defended the effectiveness of the third dose, which initially caused doubts and rejection in the country.

According to the ruler, the third dose

So far, 5.6 million people have received two doses and 1.3 million the booster.

In the country, 407,629 cases of covid-19 and 4,210 deaths have been registered since March of last year, when the presence of the virus was notified in national territory.

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