Mumbai: The hospital authority has begun to deploy requests from doctors, nurses, and additional staff to offer them a dose of booster from Covid-19 vaccine.
The request mainly came from those who took vaccines in the early days of traveling in January and February.
“There is an increasing belief that the booster dose will protect them against the estimated third wave.
There is a strong request, no doubt.
But we need more evidence to say it is needed,” said Dr.
Om Srivastava, an infectious disease and unit member Covid task.
Dr Avinash Supe, Executive Director of Hindu Hindu Hospital, Khar, said health workers had begun to discuss the third dose and many wanted them.
“Many are worried that the titrus of their antibodies have run out,” he said, adding that everything was mostly at the level of discussion.
Booster Shots have become the topic of boiling debates throughout the world when public health officials argue whether it is safe and needed at all, especially when many do not have a dose in low-income countries.
The US has decided to launch Booster Shots from September.
The city public sector also rolled over with a booster dose talk.
Dr.
Balkrishna Adsul, Dean of Sevenhills Hospital, said that many of his colleagues had taken the antibody test recently and found a decrease in Tites.
“Given that we are a dedicated Covid hospital, they think the third dose will protect them better.
But there is no decision that can be taken at our level,” said Dr.
Adsul.
Health care workers who took vaccines in January and February were fully vaccinated within four weeks, because the gap between the dosage was 28 days later.
So, many have completed six months since full vaccination, Adsul said.
Experts say that although the third dose may not have security problems per se, there is no evidence that the high level of protection offered by vaccines against severe diseases and inpatients increases.
Dr.
J P Muliel, a member of the National Technical Advisory Group on immunization (NTagi), said an observational study of Israel was that people who were vaccinated one year ago had less protection than the Delta virus had created concerns.
“After taking a booster dose, the antibody level appears in a few hours.
But it doesn’t only mean that the vaccine works, it shows that your body remembers.
So, even if the virus is infected again, your body will immediately respond too,” he said.