Sinabi ni Philippine General Hospital Director Dr. Gerardo “Gap” Legaspi nitong Miyerkules, Enero 12, na ang mga bakuna ang “game-changer” sa paglaban sa coronavirus disease (COVID-19)..
“Of course, the vaccination is probably the game-changer. The vaccination [and] the booster are the game-changer. That’s why we’re seeing a different scenario all together even for patients and healthcare workers as well,” ani Legaspi sa isang panayam sa ANC Philippines.
“When we had COVID positive healthcare workers, just 30 percent of them got admitted. Now I can probably count with my fingers in one hand how many got admitted from our 973 COVID workers that became positive. It’s really different now,” dagdag niya.
Sa pagbanggit sa mga paunang pag-aaral sa Israel tungkol sa pagbibigay ng pang-apat na dosis ng bakuna sa COVID-19, sinabi ni Legaspi na maaari itong "kapaki-pakinabang sa mga nakatanggap nito" at binanggit na "so far, no one was harm."
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“We are guided by science, we should be guided by good science. I think as soon as the data shows that it is efficacious and doesn’t carry too much risks in giving it and the benefit outweighs the risk, I think we’ll be the first one to give it to our healthcare workers,” aniya.
Gayunpaman, nagbabala si Legaspi sa publiko sa gitna ng mga ulat ng mga taong nakakakuha ng higit sa inirerekomendang tatlong dosis ng mga bakuna sa COVID-19.
“Right now, we don’t know what the effect is, but these are new vaccines, they are still unknown. The data will probably come in the middle of this year or late this year. We don’t know what the effect of four vaccine doses will be, that’s why we really have to be careful because the process occurs within our body and we don’t see it,” dagdag niya.
“I think we really should wait for data before we decide on any unknown intervention for ourselves.”
Gabriela Baron
