On the morning of the 27th of last month, an official from the medical center, who is the 1st Pfizer vaccination agent, is getting a vaccine at the National Medical Center’s Central Vaccination Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul. News 1
On the 20th, the second dose of Pfizer vaccine to prevent the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) began. Those who have completed the vaccination are expected to become immunized early next month.
On the 27th of last month, the National Medical Center announced that the second vaccination will be given to 320 workers in the medical center who received the first vaccination on the 27th of last month and the workers in the treatment hospital for COVID-19 patients in the metropolitan area. In the waiting room of the Central Vaccination Center at 9:10 am, about 20 people were waiting for their order.
Mikyung Jung (51) of the National Medical Center’s Environmental Beautification Center, known as the ‘1st inoculation’ during the first vaccination, also completed the second vaccination this morning. After the vaccination, Mr. Jeong said, “I was scared because I was going to get sick when I got the injection, but it was tingling, but it didn’t hurt.”
Another secondary inoculation, Kim Young-hwan, head of the trauma center of the Central Medical Center, said, “There was no other than a slight pain in the vaccination site, and 30 minutes have passed, but there are no symptoms and I feel good.” After the vaccination, Hyo-sang Lim, a nurse in the infectious intensive care unit, said, “You have to wake up to know, but it’s still okay.”
Im-seok Ko, vice-president of the National Medical Center, said, “We are expecting that the group immunity will work well.” The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine is expected to be known in April, when the first study results are released.
The side effects of this second dose should be observed in the future. Of the 5230 people who received the primary vaccination at the Central Medical Center, 1.8% had side effects immediately after vaccination, and 0.4% said that they had to visit an outpatient or emergency room.
“The second vaccination has a higher side effect, so we are preparing by doubling the bed in the observation room.” This was reported,” he explained.
