Adrian Marinescu, the doctor and medical director of the Matei Bals Institute, is sending an extremely important warning to millions of Romanians across the country, telling Romanians to seriously consider getting dose 4 of the vaccine against the Coronavirus if needed.
Adrian Marinescu talks about overweight people, with kidney diseases, the elderly, with comorbidities, but also those who think they are healthy, but have above average weight, etc., and this is because they can develop serious forms generated by the Coronavirus, and unfortunately they can reaches hospitals, even ATI.
"It is clear that we are talking about the continuation of a vaccination campaign that started a year and a half ago, I make two important clarifications. Unfortunately, we still don't have a new version of the vaccine, that vaccine update that refers to vaccine mutations will probably come in the fall, so we have to make do with what exists now.
It's true, the efficiency is lower compared to the Omicron version, but for vulnerable people, those who are old, those who have chronic diseases, we need protection now, we can't wait until autumn, because they do in severe forms continue, and they end up in intensive therapy, so it's an added protection for vulnerable people.
Unfortunately, there are more people than we would think in Romania (vulnerable people), not only people who are over 60 years old, or over 70, not only those who have known chronic diseases. Unfortunately, someone who is middle-aged, overweight, and maybe has chronic diseases that they don't know about, is also vulnerable.
From my point of view, the extra protection through vaccination should refer to these people, and the percentage that falls here in Romania is quite high, unfortunately. Anyone can have extra protection, without it being a firm recommendation. I don't think there is a problem that it hurts us, but here it is up for discussion if the benefits are high enough.
Certainly, yes, and they need extra protection (ed. about overweight people with kidney diseases). I would say that most of the time these people have several risk factors at the same time. Whoever is overweight also has diabetes, kidney disease, not just one condition."
