The data exist and are summarized, stressed Evangelos Manolopoulos, professor of Pharmacology at Democritus University, speaking to SKAI regarding the decision for the possibility of administering the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the three months from the administration of the second.
As he explained, we know that this is safe as there is a lot of evidence from Israel and whether it is finally given in four or five months does not seem to make any difference in terms of our safety but instead contributes significantly to the protection of people in whom immunity runs out faster.
“It secures us even more,” he stressed.
“Now maybe three months is a bit too much but 4 months is a good period” he commented, however, summing up that in all three months in terms of safety there does not seem to be any reason to avoid vaccination.
Answering the question whether it would be more correct to do an antibody test before administration, the professor said that these tests do not give much information as very few antibodies are related to the coronary artery.
“So I would just suggest that people go and do their third dose. If one is very worried and wants to feel very safe, if one is exposed too much to environments with a high viral load, it can go up to three months. “Everyone else in the four and five months is safe,” he said, stressing that in any case what we have found is that we should not wait long after the six months for the booster dose, but instead the semester should be the maximum time allowed. will have passed.
In addition, if one finds that even three months after the second dose, he has antibodies to the coronary artery, there is still no problem in proceeding with the third dose.
“The data we have from Israel and it is clear, show that with the third dose the immune response is high. “It exceeds the two installments,” he said, adding that for at least three months, the Israeli data show that it remains high and does not decline.
According to Mr. Manolopoulos, the above may give us some hope that maybe in some way the third installment will be final and may last for a year or more.
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