Video: Do COVID-19 vaccine, booster still offer enough protection for elderly patients?
Updated: 5:16 PM EST Feb 22, 2022
MAA:RI QUEEN ELIZABETH CANCELLED HER ONLINE MEETINGS TODAY AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR CIDOV-1ON9 SUNDAY. HERE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS IS DR. SIMONE WILDES, AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT SOUTH SHORE HEALTH. NICE TO SEE YOU. :ED GREAT TO SEE YOU. LET ME ASK THE QUESTION, YOU ARE NOT TREATING THE QUEEN, RIGHT? >> I’M NOT. ED: WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. BUT WE KNOW FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE THAT SHE’S EXPERIENCING MILD COLD-LIKE SYMPTOMS RIGHT NOW, AND SHE IS 95-YEARS-OLD. SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS, FOR OLDER PATIENTS, DO THE VACCINES PLUS A BOOSTER SHOT STILL OFFER ENOUGH PROTECTION? >> I MUST SAY FIRST I’M VERY SORRY TO HEAR THE QUEEN HAS COVID-.19 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT SHE ONLY HAS MILD SYMPTOMS. SHE IS ALSO VACCINATED AND BOOSTED AND THIS OFFERS PROTECTION WHETHER YOU ARE YOUNG OR OLD. WE DO KNOW THAT IMMUNITY WANES WITH THE VACCINE AND BOOSTER, BUT AS I TELL EVERYONE, IT IS BETTER TO HAVE SOME PROTECTNIO THAT NO PROTECTION, SO SHE DOES HAVE SOME PROTECTION. SHE IS ALSO ISOLATED WHICH IS GOOD AND I’M SURE SHE IS GETTING ALL OF THE APPROPRIATE THERAPY IS. I WISH HER A SPEEDY RECOVERY. MARIA: YOU’VE CARED FOR COVID PATIENTS IN EVERY AGE GROUP. WHEN YOU’RE TREATING PATIENTS, EVEN HEALTHY ONES, WHO ARE IN THEIR 80’S OR 90’S, WHAT ARE YOUR BIGGEST CONCERNS? >> BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE, PEESCIALLY IN THE ELDERLY POPULATION, I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT LUNG DISEASE IN ISTH GROUP. WHETHER THEY ARE HEALTHY OR NOT, I’M WORRIED ABOUT PNEUMONIA, LONG-TERM SCARRING. SO ALWAYS FOCUS ON WHAT THEIR BREATHING IS LIKE AND ALSO IN THE ELDERLY POPULATION, THEY HAVE A LOT OF UNDERLYING CONDITIONS SUCH AS DIABETES AND HEART DISEEAS AND THEIR MEAN SYSTEM IS WEAKENED. ALWAYS VERY CAUTIOUS WHEN I’M CARING FOR THESE PATIENTS. ED : WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM VIEWERS SO LET’S GET TO THIS ONE. THIS ONE COMES FROM SHANNON. COULD A BOOSTER SHOT CAUSE A POSITIVE COVID TEST? >> THANK YOU FOR THIS QUESTION, I GET THIS ALL OF THE TIME AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ADDRS ESSOME OF THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, MISS COMMUTE OCCASION, MINISFORMATION ABOUT VACCINES AND BOOSTERS. LET BE CLEAR. YOU DO NOTET G COVID FROM YOUR BOOSTER OR YOUR VACCINE. THERE IS NO COVID VIRUS WITHIN THE VACCINE ITSELF. THERE SHOULD BE NONE O THINKING THAT BECAUSE I GOT A SHOT, YOU ARE GOING TO GET THE INFECTION. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT. MARIA: BEFORE WE G WO,E NTWA TO SHARE OUR CONDOLENCES FOR THE PASSING OF DR. PAUL FARMER, A LEGEND IN BOSTON’S MEDILCA COMMUNITY FOR HIS WORK AROUND THE WOD.RL YESTERDAY, HIS NONPROFIT PARTNERS IN HEALTH, CONFIRMED , HIS ATDEH AATGE 62 IN RWANDA. WHAT CAN YOU SHARE WITH US ABOUT HIS REPUTATION AS A PHYSICIAN, AND A PHILANTHROPIST? HE GAVE SO MUCH TO SO MANY. >> YES, D IEFITINELY WANT TO CONVEY MY HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILASY WELL AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME. DR. FARMERAS W GIANT. HE WAS AN AMAZING PHYSICIAN AND TRULY COMMITTED TO AND HEALTH INEQUITIES AROUND THE WORLD. FOR ME, HE ALWAYS DID IT WITH LOVE AND COMPAIOSSN. IT IS SUCH A GREAT LOSS. HIS PRESENCE AND EXPERTISE WILL BE MISSED. OUR HEARTS ARE HEAVY.
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Video: Do COVID-19 vaccine, booster still offer enough protection for elderly patients?
Updated: 5:16 PM EST Feb 22, 2022
An infectious disease specialist in Massachusetts discusses COVID-19 cases in elderly patients as Queen Elizabeth II deals with a mild case.
An infectious disease specialist in Massachusetts discusses COVID-19 cases in elderly patients as Queen Elizabeth II deals with a mild case.
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