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Review
. 2021 Dec;34(6):559-598.
doi: 10.37201/req/085.2021. Epub 2021 Jun 28.

[Vaccine against COVID-19]

[Article in Spanish]
J J Picazo  1
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Review

[Vaccine against COVID-19]

[Article in Spanish]
J J Picazo. Rev Esp Quimioter. 2021 Dec.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a huge health, economic and psychological collapse in our society. Health workers have had to face one of the greatest challenges in history, trying to show the population how to deal with this disease. We have learned that vaccines are the great instrument for the fight against infectious diseases and a large number of them began to appear, not as a product of chance but as a product of the enormous progress experienced in recent years with vaccines against new infectious diseases, against other diseases such as Alzheimer's and especially against cancer. All this knowledge has been applied to this disease. Practitioners lamented the little information available to them when asked questions from patients. This document wanted to be a response to these concerns, with a scientific desire, with evidence that put aside unverified data and hoaxes. Faced with an avalanche of information, most of it without the appropriate "peer review" as indicated in the introduction, any publication becomes obsolete at the time of publication, and we opted for an "online" publication, with the incorporation of versions. This online publication has been published in the documents of Spanish Society of Chemotherapy, at https://seq.es/vacunacion-covid-19.

La pandemia por COVID-19 ha producido en nuestra sociedad un colapso sanitario, económico y psicológico enorme. Los sanitarios han tenido que enfrentarse a uno de los mayores retos en la historia, tratando de señalar a la población cómo enfrentarse a esta enfermedad. Hemos aprendido que las vacunas suponen el gran instrumento para lucha contra las enfermedades infecciosas y empezaron a aparecer un gran número de ellas, no como producto de la casualidad sino como producto del enorme avance experimentado en os últimos años con las vacunas frente a nuevas enfermedades infecciosas, frente a otras enfermedades como el Alzheimer y especialmente frente al cáncer. Todo este conocimiento se ha aplicado a esta enfermedad. Los médicos se lamentaban de la escasa información que disponían ante las preguntas de los pacientes. Este documento quiso ser una respuesta ante esas inquietudes, con un afán científico, con evidencias que pusieran de lado los datos sin comprobar y los bulos. Ante una avalancha de información, mucha de ella sin la adecuada revisión por expertos, como se señala en la introducción, cualquier publicación queda obsoleta en el momento de publicarse, y optamos por una publicación “on line”, con la incorporación de versiones. Esta publicación “on line” se ha ido publicando en los documentos de la Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia, en https://seq.es/vacunacion-covid-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; effectiveness-safety; vaccines; variants.

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