{"id":3054,"date":"2021-08-31T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:51:27","slug":"the-virus-adapts-and-mutates-we-also-must-adapt-and-vaccinate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2021\/08\/31\/the-virus-adapts-and-mutates-we-also-must-adapt-and-vaccinate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virus Adapts and Mutates, We Also Must Adapt and Vaccinate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Panama, vaccination is a State issue, a mission\nthat involves each person that makes up our society. For tourism, it is the\nprocess to begin to recover the time and tourists lost due to the Covid-19\npandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the vaccination process progresses, new challenges\nare being faced that test the creativity and will of the entire country. And,\nthere are still many people skeptical about getting vaccinated, despite the\nentry into the country of the Delta variant, a more aggressive and viral\nversion of the Covid-19 that has been causing major health problems in other\ncountries of the world. For Doctor Emilio Saturno, who is an allergist and\nimmunologist, vaccination is extremely important. He indicates that research is\nright on target, the people who have had the virus, and have not been\nvaccinated, have been reinfected, and the people who have not been vaccinated\nand have been infected have had stronger symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vaccination Decreases the Rate of Contagion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That decreasing of hospitalization is one of the most\nimportant objectives in the plan carried out by the authorities, for that\nreason Doctor Saturno comments that research have shown that there are eight\ntimes less hospitalization probabilities and 8% fewer people infected with\nvaccination and up to 25% fewer people hospitalized or with severe symptoms in\nvaccinated patients, even with the Delta variant. These data offered by the\nDoctor are of great importance when it comes to controlling the infection and\nits severe symptoms, since the Delta variant is twice as contagious and getting\nvaccinated helps reduce contagion, but more importantly, it reduces the\nsymptoms of the disease, and prevents a person’s viral status from getting\ncomplicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

90% of the Infections are Unvaccinated People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doctor Saturno reveals to us that the country is\nhaving what is called  a\n“breakthrough infection”, infected people despite being vaccinated, a\npattern that is seen more with the Delta variant. However, that only represents\n10% of vaccinated people, compared to 90% of the unvaccinated who end up\ngetting infected. This leads to a conclusion, that 90% of people who are\ninfected today are not vaccinated, exacerbating the need to vaccinate the\nlargest number of people, and thus reach 85% of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Virus Adapts and Mutates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Science has taught us through history that the virus\nadapts and mutates, generating a greater amount of infection. This means that\nthe more people are infected, the more mutations the virus will have, and this\ncauses a bigger problem, that the virus becomes more resistant to both\nmitigation measures and treatments. That is why vaccination is so important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Saturno comments that the current FDA approval is\nvery good news, since it generates greater confidence in the population to go\nto be vaccinated and eliminates any argument that contradicts the\nrecommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Normal Life Will Bring Back Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our country, returning to a new normal is\nimportant for international tourism to return. The tourist will have doubts\nabout visiting a country if is not sure that its people live calmly and without\nworrying about getting sick. Although most job segments are open under\nbio-security measures, the biggest challenge is for kids to return to classes.\nThe opening of schools is what is needed for the country to feel back to\nnormality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Doctor Saturno, schools have not\nrepresented an increase in infections anywhere in the world, that community\ncases (not in school) are what add up in this case. The Doctor goes on to\nexplain that the school is not a place of high contagion, that kids going back\nto class will not represent any greater risk neither for the children nor for\ntheir educators. On the contrary, children play together in their communities\nall the time and are exposed to each other and they do so without a mask. The\nDoctor concludes that it is in completely closed places, either at the friend’s\nhouse or closed public places, where they can get infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there is one thing in which all the citizens of our\ncountry agree 100%, it is that the country must go back to full throttle,\ncreating jobs, opportunities and enjoying the freedom to mobilize without\nrestrictions. Vaccination is the fastest process to achieve it and as our\ncountry feels normal, tourism will reach the levels it enjoyed before the\npandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Panama, vaccination is a State issue, a mission that involves each person that makes up our society. For tourism, it is the process to begin to recover the time and tourists lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the vaccination process progresses, new challenges are being faced that test the creativity and will of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}