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Today (20th), the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine has begun.
These are medical staff and staff fighting at the forefront of Corona 19.
As both were hit, the vaccine is expected to be effective at the beginning of next month.
Reporter Lim Tae-woo reports.
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Mihwawon Jeong Mi-gyeong, who was the first person inoculated with Pfizer's vaccine, Mihwawon Chung in the Corona 19 Ward, has stepped out as a second vaccination again today.
[Mikyung Jung/National Medical Center Mihwawon: The first (vaccination) 1 was very burdensome, and I was trembling a lot, but today the 2nd was very comfortable.]
Pfizer vaccine should be administered twice every 3 weeks.
The second vaccination for 320 employees of the National Medical Center went smoothly without any adverse reactions.
[Lim Hyo-sang/National Medical Center nurse: I think that I will be relieved of fear when dealing with other patients by getting this vaccination.]
Two weeks after the second vaccination, antibodies are produced. Can come out.
[Im-Seok Ko/Director of the National Medical Center's Medical Center: I usually think about how long this is maintained after 1 to 2 weeks for the antibody to reach the highest level after the 2nd vaccination...
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the case of patients in their twenties in Korea who were found to have a cerebral blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, the European Medicines Agency said that it is a symptom that the European Medicines Agency has stated that the association with the vaccine needs to be further analyzed.
[Park Young-Jun/Corona 19 Adverse Reactions Investigation Support Team Leader: We are in the process of testing for causative factors.
The relevance will be evaluated through deliberation...
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So far, more than 675,000 people have completed the first vaccination of the vaccine.
Of these, 30 have been confirmed, and the quarantine authorities believe that they have already been infected before vaccination or before immunity is formed after vaccination.
(Video editing: Jung Yonghwa)