"We may have to receive the 4th dose of vaccine": Dr. Adzic reveals when that could start happening

Photo: Tanjug/Zoran Zestic

The third dose of the coronavirus vaccine is being administered in Serbia, and judging by the number of cases and the rate of the spread of the Delta variant, the possibility of the need of the fourth dose of the vaccine is not being ruled out.

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This was confirmed in an interview for the Belgrade media given by Dr. TatjanaAdzic Vukicevic, the director of the Covid Hospital in Batajnica.

"We may have to receive the fourth dose of the vaccine, in February," said Dr. Adzic Vukicevic.

"The problem is that this is a new and scientifically insufficiently studied virus and that, until we achieve collective immunity, it will be necessary to immunize against it once every six months. Immunity is short-lived, we must all receive the third dose, maybe the fourth in February. Until the situation calms down, and hopefully it will calm down one day."

She recalled that every vaccine against coronavirus is available in Serbia, but that such protection cannot be 100 percent. In addition to vaccination, it is necessary to adhere to hygienic measures, masking and distancing.

When it comes to the condition of patients who are treated in the Covid hospital in Batajnica, the director of this health institution said that now young men between the ages of 20 and 30 most often fall ill, and what they have in common is that they have not been vaccinated.

"Most often, these are people returning from summer vacations or those who have attended some larger public gatherings. They are sick for days, for 10 or more days at home, they take medicines to relieve the fever, they do not report to the clinic or to the doctor," explains Dr. Adzic Vukicevic.

Photo: Tanjug/Zoran Zestic

According to her, such patients seek medical help when their health condition has already become alarming.

"When it becomes unbearably bad for them, they frantically run to the Infectious Diseases Clinic in the evening, by then they have already developed bilateral pneumonia. When it gets dark people start to panic, most receptions at the Infectious Diseases Clinic take place in the evening. After that, they usually arrive in Batajnica. 20 percent of those who arrive in Batajnica are immediate candidates for intensive care," warns Dr. Vukicevic.

Patients who arrive at the Covid hospital in Batajnica are mostly exhausted, pale, have problems breathing and all the parameters that indicate inflammation are elevated.

"Coronavirus has become more virulent and men are more receptive to it. It first attacks the unvaccinated ones," Dr. Adzic Vukicevic points out and adds that the new coronavirus is looking for a way to survive, and that way are unvaccinated people.

(Telegraf.rs)