Albanian doctor in Italy, Rubena Maçi says in an interview to Albanian media that despite the fact that the Italian Medicines Agency says that those who have passed Covid-19 need just a dose of vaccine and not earlier than 6 months after being Covid-19 infected, there is no scientific evidence for such a claim.
The doctor who lives and works in Turin says that these are people who have natural immunity and who may be put in the second line to be vaccinated but "there is still no scientific evidence" and that everything is a hypothesis if a dose of the vaccine has a protective effect adding that this practice has so far been followed only by Israel.
"Pharmaceutical house protocols speak of two doses. People who have naturally passed COVID-19 do not have high levels of antibodies.
"There are many scientists and immunologists who do not agree with this," said Mrs. Maçi.
Meanwhile, Italy is working to have its vaccine against COVID-19 where there are currently two companies that have done very well in the testing phase.
Rubena Maçi said that she hopes to increase the competition of pharmacies that produce the vaccine in order to have greater coverage of the population.
She described the approval of the "Johnson & Johnson" vaccine by the US Food and Drug Administration as a positive step. This vaccine the doctor said deals with a single dose and can be injected by family doctors as the flu vaccine and without having to be stored in very specific conditions.