Study in homes in Alentejo and Algarve to assess duration of effects of vaccine against Covid-19

Study conducted by ABC and Champalimaud Foundation starts this month

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The Government will promote a serological study of five thousand employees and users of nursing homes in Alentejo and Algarve, to increase scientific knowledge about the duration of the effects of the vaccine in this population, it was announced today.

The study will be conducted by the Champalimaud Foundation and the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) "still in August" and will have "voluntary participation", indicates a statement from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security.

The objective, explains the ministry, is to increase current scientific knowledge about the duration of the effects of the vaccine in the elderly population, analyzing immunity in the most vulnerable elderly who have already been vaccinated, comparing it with that of employees vaccinated at the same time.

The study, promoted under the integrated program of that ministry to support elderly homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ABC “will contact all institutions in these regions, requesting the participation of users and professionals, until it is reached. the goal of 5 participants”.

According to the tutelage, the tests will not have "any costs for the institutions" that participate in the study, whose results will be presented publicly in September.

“The results of the study will be shared with health authorities and may contribute to future decisions on this matter”, he points out.

As of 5 August, health authorities across the country recorded 53 active outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infection in nursing homes, eight of them in Alentejo, with 68 infections, and four in the Algarve with 106 infected people.

 



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