"If the Corona 19 vaccine is developed, it should be given priority among the people"

Quarantine Authorities Reveal 162 Doctors Who Give Plasma…Join Blood Blood System

(Sejong = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Mi-mi = The government announced a plan to inoculate and prioritize vaccines if it secured a new type of coronavirus infection (corona19) vaccine.

Kwon Joon-wook, deputy general manager of the Central Quarantine Countermeasures Division, said at a regular briefing held at the Osong Disease Control Headquarters in Chungbuk on the 18th. "It is a new and serious task that must be prioritized among all citizens and monitored while actually inoculating."

Kwon said, “It is a task that takes a lot of time to develop.” So far, the development of therapeutics is limited to more than severe patients (applied), and side effects and resistance should be considered.

The government suggested the goal of securing Corona19 domestic treatments within the year earlier this year and developing vaccines by next year, but this suggests that this will be a challenging task.

"The ultimate solution is a treatment and a vaccine, but the key to overcoming new infections such as corona19 and other respiratory infections is the most fundamental," said Kwon.

Meanwhile, the number of people who have promised to donate plasma for the development of Corona 19 blood system drugs has increased to 162 people on this day. Plasma donors were only 12 in the past three days, but participation is rapidly increasing as researchers and developers are finding it difficult to obtain plasma. The blood system drug requires a lot of blood because it develops and produces concentrated antibodies in plasma.

The number of organizations that revealed their intention to utilize the public biosafety facility (BL3) for corona19 virus research was counted as 13. Six of these institutions have already been linked, allowing actual research to proceed.

Quarantine officials explained that there was a difference in the amount of virus detection depending on the time of the test.

"The corona19 virus releases a large amount of virus in the early stages of the onset, and within 10 days after symptoms appear, the amount of virus drops rapidly," said Vice-President Kwon. "There are."

Regarding the results of a foreign study that corona 19 may worsen severely and affect blood type, Vice President Kwon said, "If published in the paper, we will discuss with experts and conduct internal analysis in parallel."

The day before (local time), the New England Journal of Madison (NEJM) showed that the blood type A is likely to lead to severe symptoms and the type O to mild symptoms.