Uruguay to start vaccination with third dose of Pfizer – Summary 3

The Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health will begin applying a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine to people who have already received two doses of SinoVac or who have certain clinical conditions.

The Uruguayan infectologist, Álvaro Galiana, informed Channel 3 that the Pfizer vaccine will be used and that the campaign it will start in mid-August.

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“Our vaccinated population is 70% immunized with SinoVac and 30% with Pfizer. What is now envisaged is that the population which has only received two doses of CoronaVac should start receiving Pfizer,” he said. he explains.

In this sense, he pointed out that they observed a decrease in “neutralizing antibodies” after six months from the first application Chinese vaccine.

It should be noted that the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health approved last Wednesday the application of a third dose of the drug produced by the German laboratory Pfizer-BioNTech to all people with the complete Sinovac vaccine schedule.

“The proposal is that from now on this group will specifically receive a dose of Pfizer, as a kind of booster, to generate a better immune response.“, said the infectologist.

Likewise, the third dose may also be required by those “moderate and severely immunocompromised persons” who have already received the two doses of Pfizer himself, Sinovac or the British Swedish AstraZeneca.

“The advance is very good and daily 1% of the population is vaccinated, while he is also progressing in the vaccination of 12 to 17 year olds, “he added.

Finally, he clarified that the best way to fight against the new variants is to have “a high level of antibodies”.

“This intermediate situation, where there is a small amount of neutralizing antibodies, promotes the spread of the virus,” he concluded.

Interview with Fernando Genesir.