Vaccination reduces severity of Covid-19 hit

Invasion of SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs on a large scale, with round glass formations or white patches, has been noted in 88 per cent of the people who were not vaccinated, in a study carried out by Government Medical College in Nizamabad.

The study is published in the Journal of Health and Clinical Research.

As many as 206 patients were brought into the study. Of these, 108 had not been vaccinated and 26 vaccinated. The age-group of the patients ranged from 28 to 80 years.

It was found that, in the non-vaccinated group, the involvement of lungs was more than 25 per cent.

This was noticed in 160 patients, leading to a conclusion that 88 per cent of them had invasion in the lungs.

In the vaccinated group of 26, only three patients had involvement in the lungs, which formed into

12 per cent.

As many as 26 members in the study group were healthcare and frontline workers in the hospital, like doctors, nurses. They had symptoms for 4 to 5 days and then recovered. The three members who had lung involvement of less than 25 per cent, recovered with the available treatment.

The study concludes on the efficacy of the vaccine and it concludes that even if one contracts the

Covid-19 infection after vaccination, it will mild and not severe.

Dr Kiran Madhala, author of the study and senior doctor at the medical college said, “In real-time data we have seen 3 per cent of doctors succumb despite both doses of vaccine. It has also been noted that those above 65 years of age are not producing sufficient antibodies despite vaccination.”

She said that in senior doctors the study showed that despite vaccination there were no antibodies produced. “These are subjects for further research,” she said.

The young vaccine recipients showed a pool of antibodies which brings down the severity of the infection, Dr Madhala said.

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