VACCINATION

 

More than eighty-two thousand Tatarstan citizens have already been vaccinated. But in order to stop the epidemic, it is necessary that at least sixty percent of the population of the republic be vaccinated with Sputnik V. Today, getting vaccinated against a dangerous infection is much easier than even a month ago. There are more than one hundred and fifty vaccination points, including even in shopping centers.

 

And yet, for many, the "vaccinate or not" dilemma remains daunting. Part of the population is afraid of the risk of post-vaccination complications. Many still rely on their own immunity and on the eternal Russian "maybe". And some are so psychologically difficult to endure a year of self-isolation and a continuous flow of negative information that they are not able to make any decisions at all and simply "float at the will of the waves".

 

On the one hand, the number of patients with covid in the republic in one form or another is not so great – according to official statistics, less than twenty thousand people for almost a year. Even if you add to them the same number of people who have had the disease in an asymptomatic form, this is still not even an epidemic threshold. On the other hand, according to the chief doctor of the Republican Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, Marat Gataullin, it is worth once walking through the corridors of the " red " zone and seeing with your own eyes the suffering of patients with covid, in order to drop everything and run to the nearest vaccination center.

 

Diana Ildarovna considers covid not even a disease, but a phenomenon. For the reason that he managed to touch not only health, but also many other aspects of people's lives. "Last spring, we just didn't know when the light would appear at the end of the tunnel. The process seemed unpredictable – " she says. – For more than a year, the best medical minds are busy with one disease – this has never happened in the history of medicine. The virus is completely unique, the disease passes in two stages. The first five days are a common acute respiratory viral infection. But even today, there is not a single anti-covid drug that would work with one hundred percent effectiveness. On the sixth day, the disease "changes face", systematically affecting not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, central and peripheral nervous system… In medicine, this is called systemic inflammation, which can lead to the most sad outcome." And if at first the doctors talked more about anti-inflammatory drugs to stop the so – called cytokine storm-uncontrolled inflammation that leads to damage to the body's own tissues, then the last two months the coagulation storm comes to the fore, when blood clots appear in all the large vessels of the body. What is the threat of a blood clot that has moved to an independent swimming through a blood vessel, you can imagine… Vaccination has been tested for centuries. Today, fortunately, we do not have live smallpox. There is no diphtheria or polio in Tatarstan, and only rare imported cases of measles have been reported.

Chief freelance infectious disease specialist of the Republic of Tatarstan, Associate Professor of the Department of Children's Infections of the Kazan State Medical University Halit Saubanovich Khaertynov believes that the growth rate of covid infection worldwide is too significant to ignore. – In four percent of cases, complications after covid are very serious, in sixteen-of moderate severity, these are vascular catastrophes and severe pneumonia. Only vaccination can save the situation…

 

Alas, the population has always been wary of it. Not a single vaccination was accepted with a bang, although more effective methods of prevention from infectious diseases have not yet been invented. To date, many vaccines known to us in isolated cases cause complications, while saving millions of people.

 

I CHOOSE LIFE Contrary to all sorts of rumors, not only deaths, but also cases of serious complications after vaccination against COVID-19 have not been noted in the republic.

 

"Doctors have been vaccinating since September," says Diana Abdulganieva. – Without this, they were not allowed to enter the "red" zone in the second wave. By the November holidays, we have already realized that the vaccination is very well tolerated, the level of antibodies is high. Previously vaccinated doctors work in the " red " zone to this day, and none of them got sick." According to the chief physician of the republic, practice has shown that elderly patients are much easier to tolerate vaccination. At the same time, the level of immunity formation is the same for everyone.

 

For information

 

Coronaviruses were discovered in 1965. But in the last twenty years, there has been a third surge in the spread of these infections. The first took place in the form of an epidemic of SARS in 2002-2003, then – in 2015, when the epidemic caused by the MERS coronavirus was noted. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has spread on the planet. The first two epidemics led to greater mortality, but the new coronavirus significantly outstripped them in terms of the number of infected people.

 

A freelance rheumatologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny L. Nasonov said at one of the congresses in Kazan that the XXI century is the century of viruses and autoimmune diseases. Only last year, doctors fully appreciated this definition: the covid virus is able to launch in the human body severe immune reactions of hyperinflammation of almost all organs and systems. And it is very difficult to treat the consequences of systemic inflammation, so it is necessary to stop the spread of infection by all available means. When the risk of possible complications is on one side of the scale, and the benefits of vaccination are on the other, the second one significantly outweighs.