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A congressman is requesting the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to launch a new vaccination campaign to protect Filipinos from the coronavirus illness (Covid-19) and its highly transmissible Omicron form.

Cavite Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. said in a statement on Monday night that the government’s pandemic response task committee should consider giving an additional two doses, given that some countries are currently administering the fourth dose to their people to boost their degree of protection.

Barzaga cited the case of Israel, where officials are ecstatic with their preliminary findings on the delivery of a fourth injection, which their health experts discovered to have greatly increased a vaccinated person’s protection.

“If the pandemic response task force decides to restart vaccination, it should begin with people in the A1, A2, and A3 priority categories, which include health workers, senior residents, and those with comorbidities,” Barzaga added.

During the early stages of the epidemic, he claimed, these populations received either Sinovac from China or AstraZeneca from the United Kingdom, the first two Covid-19 vaccines accessible in the country.

“That happened in April and May of last year, maybe eight to nine months ago. “By this time, the priority sectors’ immunity may have faded, if not completely vanished,” he said.

He stated that giving a third dose or a booster to health care workers, the elderly, and those with comorbidities may not be enough to restore the protection they had when they had their complete two-dose course and to protect them even from the “mild” Omicron.

“A vaccinated person’s system may have nothing to stimulate,” Barzaga remarked.

He referenced research from Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic that found that two doses of a lower-effective vaccination followed by a booster did not provide sufficient immunity against Covid-19.

According to Barzaga, those who received the full two-dose initial course may require two extra booster shots to achieve viral protection.

“The pandemic response task team can begin a new round of vaccination by providing these folks with two additional doses of Sinovac, which the government supposedly possesses in abundance,” he said.

He claims Sinovac is the vaccination of choice for many people, who claim it does not induce adverse effects like headaches and fever that are common with Western-made vaccines.

In total, 113,364,030 doses of coronavirus vaccination have been provided in the Philippines, including second doses for 52,393,229 and 3,327,416 booster shots.

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