The Ministry of Health It would be advancing actions so that this type of vaccine, known as bivalent, arrives in Colombia during the first three months of next year. With this, they might become the fifth booster dose once morest covid-19.
Bivalent vaccines, according to studies carried out, can halve the risk of contracting the virus, because they not only protect once morest the initial variant but also those that already exist today.
According to studies carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionthese types of updated vaccines can halve the risk of contracting covid, by fighting the initial variant known in Wuhan, China and other Omicron variants that currently exist.
In this investigation, it was shown that the reinforcement of these bivalent doses provides additional protection once morest urgent care encounters and hospitalizations of cases associated with covid-19 in people who had previously received 2,3 or 4 monovalent doses.
According to what was revealed on Caracol Radio, Diego Rodríguez, medical manager of the Tecnofarma Vaccine Unit, marketer of the vaccine Modern In Colombia, the Ministry of Health would be advancing actions so that this type of vaccine reaches the country in the first quarter of 2023.
“The indication for the use of this vaccine, in the case of Pfizer, is to be used as a booster in people over 12 years of age, between 3 and 6 months following receiving the last dose. Currently in Chile and Brazil, this vaccine is already being applied,” said Abalos.
So far, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection has not ruled on the arrival of these vaccines, but it is expected that in the coming days it will be known what the process for acquiring this type of vaccine will be like.
