Irene Hartmann
11/10/2020 4:40 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/10/2020 4:40 PM
In October, several qualified sources from the health field confirmed to
Clarín
that the province of Buenos Aires had signed a pre-agreement with the developers of the
Russian vaccine Sputnik V
against the coronavirus.
"It is done.
We're waiting for the doses, ”a voice boasted, glad they hadn't“ slept ”.
This week, representatives of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) ratified it: they said that "the first batch of the Russian vaccine that Argentina steps on will be
one million doses and will go directly to the Province
."
It was definitely noisy.
Could a jurisdiction really impose, for itself, a benefit on the remaining 23?
This Tuesday a different air blew: the Ministry of Health of the Nation put
order in the room
.
This was confirmed by several sources linked to the official sphere.
Although it was going to be like that, that is, although the Province of Buenos Aires had arranged the arrival of Sputnik V "on its own", now that the idea of a vaccine against Covid-19 went from being an illusion to a A palpable and close fact, the Ministry of Health, they assured, was relocated in the game and
will not endorse favoritism
of one province over another.
This, they say, will occur beyond the fact that in the last few hours, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, has justified (in dialogue with
Radio Provincia
) the advance purchase of doses made by his portfolio, stating that, "in this stage, time is price.
If you wait three months to save a little,
you lose money
”.
Buenos Aires Minister of Health Daniel Gollan.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
However, if one searches, one quickly finds voices close to the Buenos Aires government that boast that "Axel (Kicillof) put this together before the Nation."
Others explain that "it is likely that the nation will eventually centralize everything", but clarify: "In agreement with the Province."
What is this
game of authorizations and disavowals
?
Perhaps it does not attract so much attention if a recent antecedent is remembered: the debate over the mandatory nature of the coronavirus vaccine, which faced in minutes the positions of Carla Vizzotti, Secretary of Access to Health ("the vaccine will be mandatory") , and Minister Daniel Gollan ("by no means").
Domestic confinement
Perhaps, in the ninth month of the pandemic in the country, coexistence has made the domestic air unbreathable.
And so, although harmony often dominates, there are no shortage of episodes where a certain
push and pull between Nation and Province
is highlighted.
If one redoubled the interpretive game, it would fit perfectly as a projection of the tensions that are guessed in the presidential duo itself ...
In a ceremony in Florencio Varela, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, and behind him, Carla Vizzotti, Secretary of Access to Health.
Photo Lucia Merle
For now,
Iris Aguilar
, head of the Department of Immunizations of Mendoza, described the future scenario of the vaccines that will arrive in the country, and
He completely ruled out the establishment of any priority for one province over the others.
However, he
criticized the official communication related to the Russian vaccine
.
“I am not referring to the province of Buenos Aires but to the announcement by the Government that the vaccines were bought when in fact they were in negotiations.
And that secret trip ... an
aura of mystery
was installed
that it did not add
.
There is an issue of communication error, and that magical component was added: the people who believe that we are
in the Cold War between the United States and Russia
.
It's very crazy, like this is from Super Agent 86, ”he said.
Aguilar detailed how the National Immunization Commission is working: “Immunization representatives from all the provinces meet every Monday.
We are clear that
the distribution will be equitable according to the population, and homogeneous
.
Some things are clear: we know that the Health and Security Forces personnel will be vaccinated first.
But it is not clear which associated diseases will be taken into account for those under 60 or 65, something also under discussion.
The cut-off point and comorbidities are not determined ”.
Finally, he remarked, “it is a pity that communication regarding the eventual acquisition of the Sputnik V vaccine was so bad.
For the general population, such good news as having phase III vaccines closer to Argentina was communicated in an erratic way, thus generating a
negative impact
on the general population.
As is often the case, anti-vaccine movements joined in, with their conspiracy theories.
A very dangerous combo ”.
ACE
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