7 out of 10 adults who should be vaccinated do not

3/7/2018

"These results are particularly alarming, especially since there is a population at risk and a vaccine available. free for the elderly and those who suffer from it, comorbidities, "said Dr. Gustavo Lopardo, infectious disease physician and former president of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases (SADI).
Although pneumonia can be practiced Outpatient can sometimes be serious, require hospitalization and even death.According to the statistics of our country, 1 in 4 people over 65 years hospitalized for pneumonia will die after one year.
Another relevant data of the survey, conducted by A Plus A with the support of Pfizer, was that if they were vaccinated (31% of participants), they stated that the main reason that had driven them to do so was the medical recommendation e. "This point is crucial. In health and immunization, there is a lot to do in terms of awareness, but there is no substitute for medical advice. Working with all other specialty professionals such as cardiologists, gynecologists, pneumonologists, clinicians and gerontologists is a priority to explain to their patients the benefits of vaccination and recommend it to their patients when appropriate .
On the other hand, and as reported by the Department of Health of the Nation, it is relevant to emphasize the importance of the herd effect: it must be remembered that optimal immunization coverage in children is an important means of preventing pneumococcal infections in adults. 19659002] Efficacy
At the same time, the results of a study of 2,034 people over the age of 65 in the United States, hospitalized because of community-acquired (non-hospital) pneumonia, were found and the vaccinated pneumococcal conjugate population 13 are shown to have 73% less risk of hospitalization because of one of the serotypes included in the vaccine compared with those who were not immunized.
The work, titled "Efficacy of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly in the United States," was published in the scientific journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases ". Its importance lies not only in the number of patients evaluated, but also in real conditions, outside the restricted circuits of limited clinical research, with people who have been vaccinated or not according to the recommendations of their general practitioners.
"Surveys of this type confirm the importance of vaccination in this population to prevent complications and even death, and represent a real challenge for the medical community: not to reach guards with unvaccinated pneumonia. for not knowing the existence of vaccines or because their doctors have forgotten to recommend them, "said Lopardo.
"We need to update the concept of vaccines and understand that they are not an exclusive tool for children: today we have vaccines for all stages of life, so adults must know that there are some that are necessary for them.We can all prevent pneumonia between us, it is a common work of the whole society and we must badume a strong commitment in this way ", he added.
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