Eduardo Najar, Marcela Moreno
Latin News Agency for Medicine and Public Health
In the face of some allergic conditions in certain patients, specialists recommend avoiding the administration of the new drug that arrived on the island to avoid associated comorbidities..
While the new coronavirus vaccine is received with great anticipation there are many questions and issues of the population that pays for certain pathologies or conditions, clinical theories prevail where those individuals who present certain levels of allergy, can be administered some secondary effects.
In an interview with the Journal of Medicine and Public Health (MSP), different specialists such as Dr. Gabriel Martínez, infectious disease doctor at the Ponce School of Medicine, researcher Kerina Thompson, Dean of the Ponce School of Medicine and Vice President of research, recognized for his contributions on fear learning, along with the prestigious Dr. Gregory Quirk, who continued to develop this research from the Laboratory of Fear Learning at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences and Linnette Sánchez, a Legal Adviser on Health Rights, will clarify how they may be affected. patients with an allergic condition.
“We know that what is being injected is a genetic sequence, that is, RNA parent of these acids that the body transforms at the cellular level into a protein and against this is that the body reacts to form antibodies. There are people who are very hypersensitive to proteins like egg or some other product and the person develops an allergy. Those people who have these characteristics, it is recommended that they are not vaccinated, “said Dr. Martinez.
For her part, the recognition researcher Kerina Thompson, highlights the statement of Dr. Gabriel and argues that there is a large percentage of people who should not be vaccinated if they stay from an allergy especially in those foods with protein characteristics.
“There are patients who are allergic to nuts and allergic to other proteins, but not only for COVID, but for any vaccine, and this generates an immune reaction and there are people who are extremely allergic to any reaction to the immune system can cause affect., however, these people have difficulty with many drugs not only with which it to reach. The expectation of immunization must be greater than 70%, taking into account that for various reasons there are people who cannot receive the drug such as those already mentioned “explained the researcher and the dean of the Ponce School of Medicine.
In addition, the importance of a common validation such as that met in the analysis and approval of other vaccines is recognized.
“The most common and we have always heard is that if it exists if you have any type of egg protein and there are people allergic to the egg, this vaccine cannot be recommended and other alternatives are sought to prevent the disease with other types of vaccines that do not have these ingredients, so the same validation process must be performed with this vaccine. ”, explained Ms. Sánchez.
In recent weeks the rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections positive in Puerto Rico have increased and this has alerted the scientific and health community, as there is evidence of an average of 57,096 confirmed cases, 2,362 probable cases , 44,667 suspicious cases and finally 1,238 deaths due to the lethal pathogen (Data taken from the page of the Government of Puerto Rico).
Choose the dimension of the specialists here:
“We are entering a phase of increases in the slope, in recent days in the area on has not seen so much the impact, but embargo, in other sectors yes, what we are experiencing are the consequences of the activities of the Thanksgiving Day, of course, we can’t let election day pass where a large number of infections will start, ”explained Dr. Martinez.
They culminate in contagion
It is important to take into account those activities that can promote the increase in infections, it is also necessary to control the dynamics of infectious diseases, as although at some point there may be few cases, from one moment to the next. another may have a rise.
“Between October and November, the number of COVID cases tripled in several hospitals in the area over Puerto Rico, both visits to emergency rooms and hospitalizations and the number of mobile phones that are in parallel. The infectologist said.
Do you have partial closure results?
The results of a decision to mitigate a wave of contagion depend on time, whether they work or not, another point to consider is public awareness and monitoring of various biosecurity protocols, because if not there is this individual culture the cases will continue to prevail.
“What is emerging is to see the process of partial closure and after 14 to 21 days to see the results and make decisions based on how the numbers look. Here the most important thing is social awareness, no matter how many government protocols are implemented and if the message does not arrive consciously it should not have good results ”emphasized Dr. Martínez.
Immunization process
For there to be a widespread process of detention in content indexes it is important that a large number of people are vaccinated in order to stop the growing scale, specialists recommend that more than 70% of the population should receive the antidote for effective immunity.
“With us achieving 50 or 60% would be good but not enough, because it is still under this indicator. (…) Usually mass immunity has been seen that if it is not at 70 or 75% there are no significant changes in the infectious disease ”concludes Dr. Martinez.