Third dose: goodbye Sputnik in San Marino – Chronicle
San Marino, December 16, 2021 – “The health situation a San Marino because of the contagion it is dramatic. We have a duty to tell citizens that if it goes on like this we must forget the Christmas holidays and the New Year“. It is an almost angry cry that launched from the benches of the San Marino parliament by the Secretary of State for Health, Roberto Ciavatta. Because Covid is also on the Titan he started running again. Come not ever. Even though San Marino has had to ‘surrender’ a few weeks ago to the obligation of the Green pass to manage at the restaurant and the mask at school.
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647 cases (86 in the last 24 hours alone) are active in the small Republic. It is feared that the state hospital, the only one in the area, you come to collapse. Although for the moment, numbers in hand, there are 18 hospitalized, of which 3 in Intensive Care (saturation at 25%). Numbers growing, but much lower than a year ago. Effect of the massive vaccination campaign in San Marino where 83.92% of the resident vaccinable population completed the primary immunization cycle. Most with the Russian Sputnik serum. And now we also run with the third dose. 6,939 (22%) of San Marino received the booster, but this time and for the moment, Pfizer was injected to all believing, as explained several times by the Vaccines Commission of the Titan Institute for Social Security, that heterologous vaccination induces “a broader and more effective immune response, both antibody and cellular”. But the Institute has also purchased 4,000 doses of Sputnik Light vaccine, which will be used for boosters if required.
“As is known – explains the director general of the Institute for Social Security Sergio Rabini – the purchase of the Sputnik V vaccine was a choice dictated by necessity, as at that time they had not yet arrived in San Marino the vaccines of the agreement with Italy. However, it turned out to be a winning choice that made it possible to secure our country and to be able to win in a moment of strong emergency. And even now, in a moment of sharp rise in infections, hospitalizations are half of those of the same period last year compared to more than double the number of infections. Therefore, a sign that vaccines, all of them, in losing efficacy over time with respect to protection from infections, the cures a good efficacy in reducing more serious forms and the times we rely on numbers. From 1 April, therefore after about a month from the start of the vaccination campaign in San Marino, up to 30 November, the infections among people who had completed the immunization cycle were 557, of which 483 were vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine. and 74 with the Pfizer vaccine.
During the same period, 24 vaccinated people were hospitalized, of whom 18 had received Sputnik V and 6 the Pfizer vaccine. In the same period, however, 193 people were hospitalized and not vaccinated. From the data provided by the ISS it emerges, therefore, that the hospitalization rate in San Marino in the vaccinated population is 0.102% in vaccinated Sputnik V and 0.162% in Pfizer vaccinated. While it is 5.19% in the unvaccinated population. Basically, an unvaccinated person risks hospitalization 50 times more than a vaccinated.
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