Due to this, he assured that “in order for us to have applied any type of medical element, backed by the state, Argentina had to comply with a series of very strict requirements,” which “forces one to have very technical explanations and very little. related to reality” when these types of questions arise.
Argentina in pandemic
In the words of Dr. Alisio, at that time “the world was forced to seek a response to the pandemic and it was realized that the vaccination strategy would be the most efficient mechanism” to confront the epidemic.
This condition “forced the entire world to start developing vaccines quickly” and, along these lines, he mentioned that “two lines of work were decided: one had to do with the development of genetic engineering to manufacture the harmless virus.” , which would allow the development of antibiotics; The other line had to do with taking lines of research that had been developed with a little less force for other types of viruses and working on them with Covid.”
Based on this, he mentioned that “AstraZeneca, in particular, took the second path,” so it used “some lines of research into vaccines against other viruses and enhanced it to develop a vaccine against Covid.”
In this case, he explained that “the vaccine to inactivate the virus used a substance called EDTA and, in the laboratory, it was proven that it potentially had the ability to produce thrombosis, clots within the blood,” but “that was never developed in alive, in tests with the population”, so “it was never demonstrated and made the vaccine considered safe and we can work with it worldwide.”
However, he acknowledged that “based on a case of a person who apparently had some type of thrombotic complication, there was a trial with a lot of media coverage, in which the AstraZeneca laboratory was accused of being the cause of this complication.” Despite this, he stressed that this is “a person in a very broad global context,” so “drawing conclusions of this type, for us who work in health, taking into account that there are millions of people who are They vaccinated, it is very unserious.”
Masvernat
Particularly, in the case of Concordia and the Salto Grande region, the health professional highlighted that “There were definitely no cases” in which the hospital treated people who had complications from the application of this or another vaccine.
Alisio considered that “when one sees the way in which these issues are treated at a scientific level, with the rigor with which work is done and the comments that arise, one does nothing more than surrender in the face of the evidence that demonstrates how, From the moment we started vaccinating, the number of cases was drastically reduced, the number of hospitalizations and deaths were drastically reduced. Insisting that, as a counterpart, “We have not recorded any adverse effects of any kind.”
That said, he appreciated that “as always, our main tools are vaccines” and recalled that “flu vaccines are in all health centers and are indicated without a doctor’s order for all children under two years of age, for people over 65 years of age, pregnant women and those who have had a baby in the last 6 months. “All those people who have a risk factor for developing serious respiratory diseases should be vaccinated, in this case with a doctor’s order.”
On the other hand, he stressed that in the case of the Covid vaccine “It is necessary that we have one (application) per year, at least”while “the pneumonia vaccine is a fundamental tool to avoid serious respiratory diseases and has the same indications as the flu vaccine, so we recommend that both be applied.”
