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This is essentially my second vaccine, as I also volunteered in September for Pfizer’s Phase III clinical trials.
since he was confident that he would be in the lucky 50 percent who did not receive the placebo – István Wollak told the Index. After a one-year internship at a Hungarian hospital, the lung specialist went to the United States on a scholarship for postgraduate training and then stayed there.
He currently lives and works in Southaven, a small town on the border of the states of Mississippi and Tennessee, essentially in the agglomeration of Memphis, as head of the 36-bed intensive care unit. With 3 million residents in the state of Mississippi, there are currently between 2,000 and 2,500 new cases per day, compared to 11,000 new patients in neighboring Tennessee yesterday.
Local pain and mild fever
Because there was an immune response in the clinical trial phase, the injection site hurt and I experienced a mild fever that could be relieved by a medication with a concentration of algopyrin, so I’m sure I’m not in the placebo group after testing.
Said the Hungarian doctor.
He added that after he started voluntary vaccination with Pfizer vaccines at work in the workplace on Wednesday, he jumped at the opportunity again: the mild recurring fever and sensitive vaccination site made it absolutely certain that he also received the true active ingredient. in September.
I got vaccinated again to boost my immune response.
Wollak explained.
“I don’t know how long the vaccine will be in effect, but I think it is definitely useful to give it even to someone who has already had the infection, as this reminds the body of the immune response,” the doctor said.
According to him, the administration of hospital vaccination is voluntary, however, since the influence of the Republican Party is strong in the southern state, so the control of the epidemic is also a fairly politicized issue.
There are even health workers who refuse to get vaccinated
He tells the Index.
We talk after intubation
“Since spring, I have managed to avoid getting infected with the new type of coronavirus with extreme care and caution, even though I work in the intensive care unit of a 300-bed hospital and now it has become routine to treat patients with covidium, ”said the doctor, who was intubated to breathe half an hour before our conversation. needy patient.
In Wollak’s experience, the worst thing about Covid is that it can become very bad even 7-10 days after the initial symptoms appear, even if the patient has experienced temporary improvement in the meantime. And compared to normal pneumonia, patients with severe covids require mechanical ventilation for much longer periods of time, up to several weeks, and those who survive also have severe complications, often with permanent damage.
Because there is no really good drug or treatment, doctors are also becoming increasingly frustrated.
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