HYDERABAD: Invasion of SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs on a large scale, with round glass formations or white patches, has been noted in 88 per cent of the people who were not vaccinated, in a study carried out by Government Medical College in Nizamabad.
The study is published in the Journal of Health and Clinical Research.
As many as 206 patients were brought into the study. Of these, 108 had not
been vaccinated and 26 vaccinated. The age-group of the patients ranged from
28 to 80 years.
It was found that, in the non-vaccinated group, the involvement of lungs was
more than 25 per cent. This was noticed in 160 patients, leading to a
conclusion that 88 per cent of them had invasion in the lungs.
In the vaccinated group of 26, only three patients had involvement in the
lungs, which formed into 12 per cent.
As many as 26 members in the study group were healthcare and frontline
workers in the hospital, like doctors, nurses. They had symptoms for 4 to 5
days and then recovered. The three members who had lung involvement of less
than 25 per cent, recovered with the available treatment.
The study concludes on the efficacy of the vaccine and it concludes that
even if one contracts the Covid-19 infection after vaccination, it will be
mild and not severe.
