Coronavirus vaccines: here’s what the infectologist says about vaccine concerns



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The vaccines approved in Hungary have in common that they prevent them from being admitted to the hospital and that people from dying as a result of a coronavirus infection, the chief infectious doctor of the South Pest Central Hospital emphasized on the channel M1 on Friday night MTI.

János Szlávik, chief infectologist at South Pest Central Hospital, said: vaccines are not the same, their mechanism of action is different, they must be administered in different ways. On the other hand, they are known to be 80 to 95 percent effective, with most providing nearly 100 percent protection against serious illness and death.

Side effects have different spectra. The Pfizer vaccine has been shown to require great care in severely allergic people, and there are reports that the Russian Sputnik vaccine requires caution in certain diseases. At the same time, he emphasized, “in an epidemic situation, the point is to prevent people from getting sick and dying, and professionals must take that into account.”

Responding to suggestions about the Chinese vaccine, he said, this type of vaccine, like the large-scale vaccine that is given year after year against the flu, rarely develops a rare autoimmune disease that can cause temporary paralysis of the lower extremities. It is a syndrome with temporary paralysis and is well known among professionals, he said, emphasizing that these vaccines cannot be said to be dangerous for humans.

“You have to think of an epidemic”, in which case the point is that many people get vaccinated very quickly, said the infectologist, who continues to encourage everyone to register and get vaccinated. Especially those at risk, the elderly, and those with chronic diseases.

If a large part of the population vaccinates itself, “maybe we can go back to our old life before the summer,” he remarked.

The Chief Physician responded to the resolution of the Hungarian Medical Chamber, in which the Chamber drew the attention of the government and the competent authorities to the fact that, to strengthen professional and public confidence in vaccines, the National Institute of Pharmacy and Food Health would only be transparent about pharmacovigilance rules. Authorize the marketing of the medicine after it has been tested in accordance with the rules of the European Medicines Agency.

János Slavik said that member states can decide for themselves whether to allow vaccination outside the European Union. The opinion of the experts is that “vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate” with a vaccine that has been approved by the Hungarian pharmaceutical authorities, emphasized the chief doctor.



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