Older people receive newly acquired vaccines.

Coronavirus – the second year

More than a year has passed since the Chinese authorities informed the WHO of the emergence of a new, rapidly spreading virus. Since then, there has hardly been a person in the world who has not heard the term Covid-19, and more and more people are mourning the family member or friend with whom the new disease ended as stocks collapsed in weeks and our entire lives were rewritten. by the epidemic. By now, the vaccines have been completed, which in turn raises not only hope, but again many questions, while not only stopping the virus, but also threatening another mutation. You will find the details of this fight in our series of articles.

According to Cecília Müller, 80 percent of health workers who request the vaccine have already received it, and eight thousand of them have already received the second dose. “It’s a huge thing,” he said, noting that healthcare professionals are protecting not only themselves but their environment from infection. He added that the administration of vaccines has started in many social institutions, the advancement of vaccines is limited only by their quantity.

Cecília Müller pointed out that the purchase of new vaccines could begin to vaccinate people over 60 and over 89; They will be visited mainly at home by a family doctor or a vaccination team. The specialist asked the elderly to indicate their need for vaccination and asked relatives to help them register and return the mail.

The national chief physician called it a great step forward that the Hungarian experts also succeeded in spreading the English mutation of the virus in Hungarian cell cultures, so that they could study their gene pool. This will play an important role in the development of vaccines in Hungary, he stressed, as the goal would be for Hungarian specialists to develop a vaccine that also protects against variants of the virus that “circulate” in Hungary.

Regarding the Russian vaccine, Cecília Müller said that six thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine are being tested in the laboratory of the National Center for Public Health (NNK). He said that the Russian side had passed the third clinical phase of the vaccine, for which a so-called provisional publication had also been published, and adequate documentation was available. On this basis, the Hungarian Medicines Authority issued the preliminary emergency permit, which is valid for six months. Therefore, the Sputnik V vaccine can be released for use, but NNK is testing each production batch individually.

He explains that Russian vaccines are adenovirus vector vaccines, that is, a destroyed non-reproducible virus that is used to transmit a “message” responsible for spike protein production to the body, triggering an immune response. This vaccine must also be given in two doses 21 days apart. The expert said that it must be shown that these adenoviruses are actually unable to reproduce, while at the same time passing the information to the cell. If these tests are reassuring, the vaccine can be used, he said.

Cecília Müller also spoke about the so-called multi-organ inflammation that affects children days after coronavirus infection. As you said, this is a known complication, but as it rarely happens, introductory material has been published for hospitals that care for children. If a child with a coronavirus infection develops a high fever or inflammatory symptom again, the treating physician should also consider the possibility of this multi-organ inflammation. In Hungary, the clinics and the Heim Pál Children’s Hospital treat children with such complications, all conditions for healing are given in these places and the children recover from this complication, he added.

Cecília Müller said that the number of recently registered coronavirus infections has decreased in recent days and the number of deaths is also decreasing. The number of people cured is now two and a half times that of the actively infected, and the number of patients requiring hospital care due to coronavirus infection is also decreasing. Currently there are 3,793 patients of this type treated in the hospital, 254 of whom are connected to ventilators.


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