RTL 5minutes – Vaccines, tests, restrictions …: Answers to your questions about the Covid
To help you better understand Covid news, the editorial staff is mobilizing and answering your questions about the epidemic in Luxembourg.
Vaccination and health restrictions are among your main questions. This is what emerges from a call for testimonies launched by RTL 5minutes this early January.
In this first part of your questions about the coronavirus, the use of vaccines appears to be the main one of your questions. In particular their generalization triggered by the Luxembourg government.
The questions and their answers are classified by topic. This article will soon be completed with new questions, once all the answers have been obtained.
YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT IMMUNIZATION
➡ Can you choose your vaccine?
The vaccine used depends on many parameters including the age of the person who will be vaccinated, the place of vaccination (centers, doctors, pop-ups), the stocks available and the vaccination schedule. You can get this information when you get immunized.
Meeting on Guichet.lu if you need to make an appointment. Or on the site Impfen.lu to find a doctor or a pop-up offering vaccination.
➡ Why does Luxembourg not offer a Janssen booster?
On the advice of the Higher Council for Infectious Diseases, which refers to the European Medicines Agency, the booster vaccination is carried out with an mRNA vaccine. “According to the latest available results, a booster dose mRNA vaccine induces a stronger immune response and better efficacy against symptomatic infection than a viral vector vaccine booster, regardless of which vaccine is used for the primary series. “ wrote the CSMI in its notice of December 14, 2021, before the propagation of the Omicron variant.
➡ When will the Novavax vaccine be delivered to Luxembourg?
According to the first information revealed by the Minister of Health Paulette Lenert, Luxembourg has just ordered 30,000 doses of the American vaccine Novavax. And has an option of 69,000 additional doses.
If delivery is scheduled for this year, the exact date has not yet been released. In France, the Minister of Health estimated that the first doses would arrive in Europe at the end of January. Case to follow.
➡ Why is Luxembourg considering compulsory vaccination?
Faced with the multiplication of cases, the pressure applied to hospital services and given the protection conferred by vaccination, the government and certain parties have come out in favor of compulsory vaccination. Just like certain institutions in Luxembourg (the Association of Physicians, the Medical College, the Confederation of Organizations Providing Aid and Care, etc.).
Xavier Bettel said on Wednesday that a law had been prepared to put in place the vaccination obligation. “This is a draft that has been prepared to at least have a basis for discussion. There are several options in it.”
➡ Israel has suspended the administration of the 4th dose of the vaccine?
In reality, Israelis aged at least 60, immunocompromised or employed in the medical world can receive a 4th dose of vaccine since Monday, January 3, 2022, if this vaccination must be opened up to the rest of the population.
A clinical trial initiated at Sheba Hospital in Israel has found that administering a fourth dose of Pfizer vaccine results in a five-fold increase in antibodies one week after injection and protects against “Serious with complications”.
YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TESTS
➡ Why are there so many cases when the majority of the population is vaccinated?
According to the European Medicines Agency, the gradual decline in immunity and the appearance of more contagious variants – like Omicron recently – explains the increase in infections.
In other countries where Omicron is also very present, the sharp rise in infections has not recorded a peak in hospitalizations as large as with the other variants. The lower virulence of the variant and the vaccination are considered to be responsible for this resistance of the infected persons.
The Agency recalls, however, that the most serious cases requiring hospitalization and deaths remain much more frequent in unvaccinated people.
YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT RESTRICTIONS
➡ Can recovery from Covid after obtaining a complete vaccination schedule activate CovidCheck with 2G +?
According to the new 2G + format implemented in recreational places such as bars and restaurants, a test should be performed by clients, even if they have a complete vaccination schedule or have recently recovered. To date, only people who have received a booster dose are not required to take a rapid test.
A bill has been tabled in the Chamber of Deputies to simplify and harmonize access to 2G + establishments, without additional testing, to people with a complete vaccination schedule or cured in the last six months. A more detailed article will soon present this new law.
Editor’s note: The editorial staff has received many requests. More questions will be added to this article soon.
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