Today, Valeriu Gheorghita made a very important announcement regarding the administration of a third dose of the vaccine against the Coronavirus, given that the CEO of Pfizer said that this could be necessary 12 months after the initial immunization.
Valeriu Gheorghita says that for now there is no official decision by the European authorities, or from other countries, regarding this situation, so it is not known when, or if, a third dose of vaccine will be needed, but it is very possible that whether its application is necessary.
"I would like to make a clarification: there is no established decision at the level of experts, at the international level regarding the necessity of the third dose. It is an analysis that is being carried out at this time. It is especially important to have the safety data, and the immunogenicity and tolerability data for the third dose, and this variant is taken into account in the conditions in which we will talk about the increase in the prevalence of COVID-19 cases as a result of infection with other viral variants insufficiently covered by current vaccines.
The vaccine efficacy data show us a persistence of the protective response for at least six months, it is very likely that we will be talking about a much longer period of time, but we need to get more information as time passes since people are vaccinated , but it is not a firm decision, this has not been established. There are reviews, and it's great that they exist, precisely because we need scientific data to support any other recommendation from here on out."
