11/10/2020 11:45
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/10/2020 1:36 PM
Progress in the different coronavirus vaccine projects around the world accelerated times in Argentina, where the authorities have already begun to diagram the processes for the application, particularly to the so-called risk groups, the first to receive immunization.
But in addition, there is a strong controversy around the possibility that the vaccine is mandatory or not and what are the resistances that people can find.
In this sense, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, was categorical about the number of people who will accept to receive the future vaccine.
"The problem is not one of those who do not want to be vaccinated, it will be a group of irresponsible people, who do what they want. Our problem is to see how we are going to do to vaccinate the huge demand. People have enormous expectations.
Let's show that the 99% are going to want to be vaccinated
, let's not show that group of irresponsible, delusional people, "he remarked.
Speaking to Radio Provincia, the official stressed that "the vast majority, the vaccine being safe as the vaccine will be, will want to access."
And he assured that if the vast majority of Buenos Aires residents are vaccinated, it will be possible to "spend next year as a much more normal year and the following year, forgetting about the problem and transforming it into a flu."
The Sputnik-V vaccine has already been applied to healthcare workers in Russia.
In Argentina it must be approved before its application.
Photo Reuters.
Gollan also gave more details
of the plan that the government
of Axel Kicillof has to apply the vaccine once the first one arrives in the country and is approved by ANMAT.
"We are calculating 6 million vaccines for vulnerable groups. Those would be the first selected, we will see how many doses reach us and in what time and we are preparing to have the device ready from December," said the head of the portfolio. health in dialogue with
Radio Provincia
.
Gollan assured that once the first vaccine arrives in the country,
"the next day"
they will already be applying it.
For that, there is a plan in development that will have "three or four people" to do the procedure for each person who is getting vaccinated.
"There will be one who applies the vaccine, another who will load the syringe and one who will be in charge of maintaining the cold chain. Everything to save time. For that we made a call among health workers who want to join and
we have already registered 13 thousand people
who will be trained, "he explained.
That device, he said, is being developed by the Province "together with the Nation."
The speed that the minister seeks to begin vaccinating the vast majority of the population is directly related to the time it will take for the Province to immunize that group of 6 million people that involves
risk patients and essential workers
such as health, education and security.
The Russian Sputnik vaccine that the national government bought and that must be approved.
Reuters photo
"If they give us the vaccine on December 26, for example,
between 3 or 4 months it will take us to vaccinate
6 million people," Gollan estimated.
The official went further and assured that, in order to cut off circulation and generate a herd effect, they will have to "try to vaccinate 75 percent" of the population, although "the ideal is 95 percent to generate immunity." .
"In this first section we will have to continue to be careful, because the virus will continue to circulate," he added.
For his part, he countered the criticism for the money that was used to buy the vaccines in advance, doing it at a higher price than it will possibly have once it is approved.
"At this stage,
time is price
. If I wait three months to save a little, I lose in economy," he justified.
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