When to get COVID-19: He spoke about a hard-to-understand paradox about side effects

Will we receive drugs for the coronavirus?

When the oncoinmunologist Marius Strioga was asked in Delfi TV’s “Essentials” if we would get a cure for the coronavirus, the interviewee assured that we would probably get one, but did not understand the high expectations of the people.

“It just came to our attention then. But we need to assess the factor for whom the drugs are intended and for whom the vaccines are intended. The drugs are used to treat an existing disease. If the disease spreads and there are many patients, if a large some of them end up in the hospital, they will have to be treated. Secondly, now everyone is very scared (usually irrationally and puzzled) by the long- or short-term side effects of the vaccine. Where does this illusion come from? ? Don’t you think the medicine will have no side effects?

Currently, the drug is remdesivir, not very effective. It is effective when prescribed within eight days of diagnosis and symptoms, but it often happens that coronavirus patients contract the disease severely after ten days, and then the drug is ineffective. “

The interviewee emphasizes that medications can also have side effects.

“It just came to our knowledge then. All drugs have side effects, even those that could be used prophylactically. Now it is said that we are supposed to allow the chemicals along with the vaccines, but once we have the drugs, neither there will be long-term monitoring results for them. The questions should be the same as for vaccines: what will happen in five years, what will happen in ten years, where will those results be, etc. How it differs from vaccines, not really I get it. These will be newer drugs, and it is not known how effective they will be, what the palette of side effects will be. How is the appeal of drugs different from vaccines in this respect? It is used to put out the fire, and the vaccine is a preventive measure to control the number of people who need the medicine ”.

Mr. Strioga does not understand where the strange and incomprehensible paradoxes come from, as if the vaccine were a greater evil than ibuprofen or other drugs so commonly used by everyone.

“Let’s take a look at the website vaistai.lt, Let’s say a list of the final effects of ibufrofen; how many there are, let’s see their frequency. In terms of severity and frequency of effects, ibuprofen is much more likely to cause side effects than the vaccine. Also, ibuprofen is used from babies to adults, its availability is not limited. Why not think about this case? <...>?

R. Meškys assured that he sees medicines more as one more instrument in the fight against the coronavirus.

“I see drugs as another instrument that we do not have. I’m not saying that drugs can replace vaccines, certainly not. In this situation, there is not even talk of vaccine replacement. I mean, when there are no antibodies to elemental things, there are quite a few older people. Here is just another instrument. We have to use all the tools we have: masks, insulation, vaccines, medicines. Ideally, we should have a kit. “

According to him, this tool would be of great help in handling the situation.

Stankoon: There is no one hundred percent measure

Stankūnas emphasized on the show that the coronavirus is a very threatening enemy.

“Let’s try to remember what happened in January: there were two thousand people in the Lithuanian hospital. In other words, one in three people hospitalized had a coronavirus.

When it comes to ways to fight this enemy, we often say <...> that no measure to combat this virus is one hundred percent effective. As for the vaccines, it can be seen that in the fight against the delta strain all its parameters decrease, but it continues to work, the effect is strong. If we talk about masks, it won’t go back one hundred percent, but it works. “

At the beginning of vaccination against coronavirus infection, the target of 70% vaccination was declared. So far, the population of Lithuania has become a reality in only 11 out of 60 municipalities.

According to the latest data from the Department of Statistics, 1,728,574 citizens (61.8%) were vaccinated in the country as of Thursday, of which 7,964 were vaccinated on Wednesday. -79 years (194 people). On Wednesday, 256 children (12-15 years old) were vaccinated in Lithuania.

Among the large municipalities (with a population of 100 thousand and more), the residents of Panevėžys lead the vaccination activity (65.7%), followed by the previous leaders: the residents of Kaunas (64.9%). To date, 62.7% have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Vilnius city, 62.5 percent. Kaunas district, 60.6 percent. Šiauliai, 53.5 percent. Klaipeda and 50.7 percent. Residents of the Vilnius district municipality.

This last municipality, according to the data on vaccination of the population published this Thursday, is among the three Lithuanian municipalities that have the least faith in the benefits of science and vaccines. In this sense, the Šalčininkai district is “in the lead”, which has not expanded to 40% so far; so far, 39.8% have been vaccinated in this district. population. Skuodas district was also in the untraceable trio (51.9% were vaccinated).

However, the small municipality of Neringa (95%), which has long exceeded the 70% limit in terms of population. Akmenė d. (vaccinated 87.8% of the population) and Alytus d. (86.7%) people. Also, Anykščiai and Ignalina d. (74.8% each), Druskininkai and Birstonas (72.4% each), Moletai d. (71.9 percent), Jurbarkas (71.7 percent), Varena d. (71.6%) and Rokiskis d. (70.6%) population.