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Asesores de la FDA recomiendan terceras dosis de vacuna solo para mayores de 65 años

También aconsejable para personas con problemas inmunitarios, Pfizer solicitó refuerzo para mayores de 16 años, pero evidencia apunta a que protección aún se mantiene grueso de población

(FILES) In this file photo a nurse shows off a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of the Chatham County Health Department on December 15, 2020 in Savannah, Georgia. - Schools in a county in the southeastern US state of Georgia will pay $1,000 bonuses to staff who are vaccinated against Covid-19 in a bid to protect themselves from the resurgent pandemic, authorities said. With that incentive county officials said they hope to avoid the "numerous disruptions that were encountered in public education over the past two school years due to a global pandemic." The Henry county school district, southeast of the city of Atlanta, will make a $1,000 payment to those of its nearly 6,000 employees who are fully vaccinated now or who will be vaccinated by September 30, 2021 with one dose of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine or both doses from Pfizer or Moderna. (Photo by Sean Rayford / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
(FILES) In this file photo a nurse shows off a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of the Chatham County Health Department on December 15, 2020 in Savannah, Georgia. - Schools in a county in the southeastern US state of Georgia will pay $1,000 bonuses to staff who are vaccinated against Covid-19 in a bid to protect themselves from the resurgent pandemic, authorities said. With that incentive county officials said they hope to avoid the "numerous disruptions that were encountered in public education over the past two school years due to a global pandemic." The Henry county school district, southeast of the city of Atlanta, will make a $1,000 payment to those of its nearly 6,000 employees who are fully vaccinated now or who will be vaccinated by September 30, 2021 with one dose of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine or both doses from Pfizer or Moderna. (Photo by Sean Rayford / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) SEAN RAYFORD
La vacuna contra la covid-19 de Pfizer y BioNTech consta de dos dosis, la FDA no ve necesidad por ahora de un refuerzo para la mayoría de la población. Fotografía: Sean Rayford / AFP (SEAN RAYFORD/AFP)

La mayoría de la población no requiere de una tercera dosis de la vacuna contra la covid-19 para estar protegido contra la enfermedad. Sin embargo, los mayores de 65 años y quienes tienen problemas inmunitarios sí podrían verse beneficiadas de esta tercera inyección.

Esa fue la conclusión a la que llegó la tarde de este viernes un panel de expertos de la Agencia de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés), al responder a una solicitud de la empresa farmacéutica Pfizer para autorizar la aplicación de una inyección adicional de este biológico a población mayor de 16 años.

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