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Must extend side-effects monitoring to 28 days after vaccination: Top official
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Dr NK Arora, member of the national AEFI Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) committee, said with more vaccines set to enter the market, monitoring for side-effects should be enhanced.
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(This story originally appeared in on May 16, 2021)All states should monitor vaccine recipients for Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) for 28 days, a top public health official has said. Currently, recipients are monitored for AEFI for the first 72 hours after receiving a jab.
Dr NK Arora, member of the national AEFI Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) committee, said with more vaccines set to enter the market, monitoring for side-effects should be enhanced.
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Photo : YONHAP News The National Medical Center s research institute of public health has conducted an interim survey of COVID-19 immunity on vaccinated people and found that neutralizing antibodies have formed in all of those surveyed.
Announcing the findings in a Monday news conference, researchers looked into antibody formation before and after the first and second doses in 50 National Medical Center employees who received the Pfizer vaccine.
Sixty-two percent developed neutralizing antibodies three weeks after their first vaccine dose. This shot up to 100 percent one week after the second.
Another study on antiviral T lymphocytes involving 30 people found that all those fully vaccinated had those cells, pointing to a cell-mediated immune response sufficient for virus prevention.
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