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During the day this Monday, the Ministry of Health of the Bío Bío Region, Héctor Muñoz, reported that a health official at Hospital Las Higueras de Talcahuano, who received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, tested positive for the virus.
The authority indicated that it was feasible for something like this to happen given that the vaccine the vaccine builds immunity after receiving the second dose, the one that had not yet been administered to the health professional.
“Complete immunity against COVID-19 is acquired seven days after the second dose is applied, which is applied 21 days after the first one ”, he said.
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In that sense, he explained that “this case is being monitored by the pharmacovigilance team of the Public Health Institute (ISP), it is being observed, but what happened here (is that) a person can obviously be infected between these doses“.
The seremi of Health also pointed out that “TAll events after vaccination are reported to the Department of Pharmacovigilance of the Institute of Public Health, who keeps the registry of these cases, as well as adverse reactions ”.
In addition, he called to trust the vaccine and assured that its effect “is very beneficial for the effects of how the disease manifests itself and for the large number of people who are not going to be infected.
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