A country bypasses the Corona in a strange way. Will he succeed in fighting it?

Thailand has given the green light to its doctors to start giving a dose of Corona vaccine under the skin, instead of the muscles, in an effort to boost immunity and expand vaccine supply, despite many reviews of this method, as according to experts. the vaccine loses its effectiveness.

Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the method, which doctors began testing last month, can be used at the discretion of medical professionals, provided it is supported by evidence.

Chalarmpong Sokunthavon, director of Vachera Hospital in Phuket, said, in turn, that the hospital was given the green light to use the technology from Friday as experiments showed it elicited a similar immune response. to the usual method, noting that “one dose of the vaccine can be used for five subcutaneous injections.

And the head of the medical service of the Thai Ministry of Health said in his speech to the French medical magazine, “Futura Sunti”, that this experiment shows that the intradermal injection requires a quarter of the dose of intramuscular injection with the same level of efficiency.

This “strategy” will allow four times as many people to be vaccinated with the same amount of doses, explained Subakit Cerelac.

And an American doctor had previously warned of the wrong ways of injecting the Corona vaccine, and said any defect could disrupt the effectiveness of the vaccine.

Tom Bates, a neurologist, said he has seen many cases of improper needle injection by pressing the needle directly into the shoulder, a process that causes the vaccine to reach the fatty layer under the skin instead of the muscle in which the vaccine liquid should be deposited.

And the American doctor indicated, in a previous press release, that the vaccine will not be effective in this case, stressing that its proper place is muscle.

It should be noted that the Thai Ministry of Health had not previously mentioned the studies on which it relied to monitor this method of vaccination, but the magazine “Futura Sonti” revealed that there had been an analysis. conducted in 2020 which compared the two types of vaccination. (on the skin or intramuscularly) and related to the vaccine against H1N1 influenza and infection with Hepatitis B virus and rabies.

This analysis indicates that the vaccine does not lose its effectiveness if it is injected under the skin.

So far, only 21% of the 72 million people living in Thailand have been fully immunized.

Thailand has so far recorded more than 1.4 million cases of corona and 15,000 deaths, the majority of which have been recorded since April this year.