Any vaccine that opposes the coronavirus to be applied will be given as a priority to those known as at-risk groups, adding the elderly, the virologist and the head of the government’s clinical council on coronavirus, Professor Irja Lutsar told The Daily in Postimees.
Frontline staff, such as fitness care and others with chronic diseases, would be explained in the at-risk demographic, as well as the elderly, and adults and young people in good physical condition would possibly first have to settle for a normal flu vaccine and respect hygiene and social distance. intelligent practices, Lutsar said in the interview with Postimees (link in Estonian).
While more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 and 690,000 virus-related deaths have occurred internationally since the start of the pandemic at the end of 2019, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), these figures for Estonia are 2079 (increased to 2080). after the interview – ed) and 63 respectively, Lutsar continued.
The progress of the vaccine in Estonia is not feasible in components exactly because of these relatively low rates, Professor Lutsar said, the country can take components in vaccine trials developed in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, already clinically tested in Brazil and South Africa. . I fix, among other things, she says.
The effectiveness of the vaccine can only be fully evaluated one or two years after inoculation, he added, meaning that the first indications of the vaccines tested and their effects on humans will not be achieved until the end of this year and early next year. have spread more widely so far
It is still too early to say what type of vaccine is most likely to emerge, or whether other methodologies will be adopted, such as healthy volunteers in their twenty years voluntarily inflamed with the virus, disapproved of by medical ethics agencies. Anecdotal reports of side effects such as fever and rashes have already emerged near the injection site, the number of subjects so far has been too small to be sure that no less unusual side effects will occur.
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