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Despite the balanced Hungarian epidemiological data, we must not sit down, now is the time to vaccinate, the national medical director stressed to the public media on Sunday. Cecília Müller said:
It is very important that as many people as possible get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Cecília Müller emphasized that the epidemiological data in Hungary have been very similar for about ten days. It reported that by Sunday, 1,370 people had been diagnosed with a coronavirus infection and 64 had lost their lives, 3,578 patients were being hospitalized and 291 were on a ventilator.
However, in addition to the stagnation of the number of cases, the data measured in the wastewater show that in some places a certain slight increase began
Cecília Müller pointed out. He reported that the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, had been successfully tested at the National Center for Public Health (NNK), so now this vaccine can be used in Hungary by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca. previously authorized in addition to their vaccinations.
Hungary is waiting for enough Sputnik V vaccine to vaccinate one million people and Sinopharm to vaccinate another two and a half million people in China.
Explaining the mechanism of action of the different vaccines, the National Medical Director stressed that any vaccine is better than living safely, and the wide range of vaccines offers a greater opportunity. First, he called for the protection of the most disadvantaged and the reduction of serious diseases and deaths to be the most important objectives.
Fortunately, the vaccine against any coronavirus technology can be effective. In contrast, for example, only the vaccine containing the completely inactivated virus was effective against the H1N1 variant of influenza, as was the case with the Hungarian vaccine. China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine uses such a mechanism
– said the medical director, adding that “only for medical indications” the doctor may prefer one vaccine over another for his patient. Cecília Müller also indicated that
So far, 286,379 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine and more than 105,000 have also received the second.
He recalled that two of the three vaccination campaigns had already been completed, more than 80,000 people had been vaccinated, as well as residents of social care institutions and social institutions.
Focus on the elderly
He has also started a vaccination campaign for the elderly, relying heavily on the help of family doctors who have had a very positive experience. Cecília Müller said that all vaccines approved in Hungary protect against serious diseases and they all have a place in the system. He added that the AstraZeneca vaccine is intended for registered chronic patients under the age of sixty.
The vaccine is effective and safe, however, in a tripartite clinical phase study older than sixty years, not a large number of subjects that could be inferred from it were studied. So here we have to do more research on the amount of testing, we can continue to do so to be able to say that this vaccine will certainly protect the vaccine even in the most advanced age.
He said, adding that it is
in the elderly, the immune system no longer responds as vigorously to the vaccine as in the young.
So if someone gets the vaccine, they don’t necessarily develop protection in all cases.
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