Those who have been infected by Covid-19 in this new wave of contagion and their vaccination schedule is incomplete, if the biological one is available they should apply it as soon as possible. Since there is no contraindication “in relation to any date”, recommends Samuel Ponce de León, head of the University Commission for the Attention of the Coronavirus Emergency.
There is no “rigid time frame that has to be met”
After getting sick from covid infection and once the discomfort disappears, there is also no problem in applying the second dose, initial schedule or booster vaccine. There is no “rigid time frame that has to be met.” Waiting for 30, 60 or 90 days to pass “is not useful”.
Those who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 and have the complete vaccination schedule – insists the also coordinator of the University Health Research Program (PUIS). They should get the booster and the influenza vaccine because that way they will improve their immune status, “perhaps with greater efficiency than having had Covid.”
Ponce de León warns that those who do not have a vaccine or only incomplete the vaccination schedule are at greater risk of having a more symptomatic disease. With more complications, with greater severity or requiring hospital care.
Postcovid syndrome can appear weeks after the acute condition is resolved
After suffering from a Covid infection, there is a clinical picture that can occur in a variable percentage of the population. And it will surely change from variant to variant of SARS-CoV-2, “if the populations are vaccinated or not, if the schemes are complete, if there are reinforcements.”
In long Covid, explains the researcher, the symptoms are present for four to six weeks. Postcovid syndrome can appear weeks after the acute condition has resolved. Its clinical manifestation is described as chronic and very intense fatigue, tiredness, a little headache and musculoskeletal pain. Which can be persistent and difficult to resolve.
Wear face masks correctly and avoid gatherings
Given the extraordinary intensity of transmission of the virus (omicron variant), it is safest to avoid gatherings, crowds and talking to people “very closely”. As well as always wearing a mask correctly (made of very well-fitting three-layer fabric or some other).
Also, says Ponce de León, a large number of infections are expected by omicron in the following weeks. Perhaps 50 percent of the population of Mexico will be infected again. There will be many millions of infected inhabitants. The majority, asymptomatic and in smaller proportions, will have symptoms of variable intensity: a majority will present moderate symptoms and the rest will suffer from severe symptoms.
If it weren’t for vaccines and vaccination, in this fourth wave of SARS-CoV-2 “we would have a much more compromised situation in terms of hospital demand and with a significant increase, already now, in mortality.”
Hospitals will be saturated in the coming days and deaths will increase. Let’s hope they are less than those that occurred in past waves. That will be known until “we have the data”.
The interaction between the virus will continue to change…
Over time, Ponce de León points out, the interaction between the virus will continue to change and our species will continue to improve its immunity in general. And a stable level of infections or “endemic pattern” will be established, with increases at some time of the year. It may be in winter and reinforcements or new vaccination schedules will be necessary periodically.
In Mexico, the health authority has announced that two new antivirals have been approved. One of them for “very early use” in the course of the infection. It is not yet determined how the distribution scheme will be applied. Possibly this is in the hospital institutions of the health sector and there is also “some availability” for sale in pharmacies.
“It will be an extraordinarily useful tool to be able to use with a medical guide, of course in the circumstances that foresee its best effectiveness.”
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