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'Bubbles of privilege': what the science of VIP vaccination against the coronavirus says for the environment of politicians

2021-02-23T21:40:16.543Z


Infectologists claim that it is wrong to think of a 'herd immunity' in a group. And that it is impossible to know the limit of the environment of government officials so that the virus does not circulate.


Irene Hartmann

02/23/2021 17:32

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 02/23/2021 5:32 PM

At this time, as a result of the clandestine assembly of a VIP vaccination program with the supposed intention of creating sanitary "microbubbles" against the coronavirus in the governmental sphere, many wonder if, beyond the logical ethical questioning, there would be, in substance, a justification from infectology and epidemiology.

Clarín

spoke with different experts in these matters.

First clarification

:

Covid-19 infection is one thing and disease is another.

Second:

getting vaccinated, as far as is known, prevents Covid-19 disease;

not necessarily infection.

The evidence collected so far (scarce, due to the short time that vaccines have been among us) only prevents, in the percentages disseminated by the brands, from developing serious symptoms of coronavirus.

Or die.

Third:

the sources consulted for this note believe that getting vaccinated should reduce community transmission, since, it is not known but it is presumed, it would lower the viral load of those - even vaccinated - who become infected.

But (they add), community transmission will stop when 60% to 70% of the population is vaccinated.

A

fourth clarification

emerges from these points

, and that is that the “grupete” immunity, in this instance, is a

installed fallacy that shows its true purpose: individual rescue.


Arnaldo Casiró

, head of Infectology at Hospital Álvarez,

spoke

of

the “

bubbles of privilege

” that scandalized these days 

.

The doctor was categorical, and was based on two premises.

The first, that "there is no guarantee that whoever gets vaccinated will not be infected, since they could be asymptomatic, and that is why the use of the chinstrap and the rest of the measures should continue."

The director of Hospital Posadas, Alberto Maceira, leaving the courts of Comodoro Py, after declaring in the case initiated for irregular vaccination against the coronavirus.

Photo: Andrés D'Elia

Those who need more certainty on this point can take a look at a note published this week in the prestigious journal Nature.

It is titled “

Can Covid vaccines stop transmission?

”There it stands out how there is still no evidence that dance vaccines - and the route is brand by brand - actually prevent Covid-19 infection.

Instead, it is explained, they are

effective in predicting the severity that the virus could cause

, which, in this instance, is key.

Clarifications from an expert in vaccinology -who asked, in this case, to reserve his name- are also useful: “It is precisely being thought internationally that the new generation vaccines should induce responses in the mucous membranes, because it is assumed that if one intervenes at that level, perhaps

preventing transmission

. "

This is based, he clarified, "on the fact that most vaccines, in general (from influenza to chickenpox), do not generate sterilizing immunity. It measures that patients do not have serious symptoms and do not die, but

it is not that you will not get infected

. Herd immunity, precisely, means that if 60% or 70% of the vaccinated population is reached, the possibility of the virus circulating decreases more and more because the viral load of each person is usually lower " , he clarified.

Returning to Casiró, his second argument is based on a question:

How to determine where a bubble ends?

 "If I vaccinate the people around me, I have to vaccinate the people around the people around me. The Ministry of Health established that the strategic personnel came in a second instance, after the highest risk groups : Health personnel and older adults, "he said.

In reality, the Ministry of Health reports online that, in the priority scale for vaccination, the

"strategic staff"

(to be defined by each jurisdiction) is below the teaching staff ... 

The vaccine expert consulted was clear on this point: "There are countries in which only the President is considered strategic personnel and, by a transitory nature, the First Lady. The President is the representative of the people and is an irreplaceable figure.

".

President Alberto Fernández, in the announcement of the creation of the Economic and Social Council.

The vaccination strategy of Argentina does not appeal to the conservation of bubbles, whose “scope could be infinite”, evaluated Casiró: “For example, doctors are vaccinated to preserve them from the sick and to preserve, in turn, patients .

But

the family members of the doctors are not also vaccinated

because they are part of their environment.

With this gaze,

Adolfo Rubinstein

, former Minister of Health of the Nation, doctor of Medicine and magister in Clinical Epidemiology

agreed, quite indignant

.

He spoke of an

original sin

.

“The original sin is that

what is understood by strategic personnel

has not been clearly defined

.

I would think it was on purpose.

If they said 'strategic personnel is the President, his ministers, governors, mayors,' well, that's fine.

You may not agree, but the information is objective, explicit and transparent.

The point is that when this is done

ex post

.

There you already lost credibility and trust ”.

This concept (popularly embodied in the saying "he

who warns does not betray")

  was also referred to by Casiró: “If it was correct,

why was it not whitewashed beforehand?

Say 'we think these fifty people should be vaccinated'.

The problem is concealment, which suggests something else ”.

The third expert consulted harshly questioned several of the figures of the national political scene questioned at this time, since they and their families "took advantage" and were also vaccinated.

Among them, Eduardo Duhalde, Sergio Massa, Hugo Moyano, although in particular he referred to Carlos Zannini, current attorney of the National Treasury: “He appeared in the system as vaccinated for being health personnel.

A lie.

If anyone did that they would denounce him for usurpation of titles and honors ”.

Rubinstein finally asked himself: “What does 'bubble' mean?

Is the secretary of the Minister's spokesperson who responds to the President a 'bubble'?

This is the problem.

If you say 'first Health workers and over 80 years old, Security personnel and the President, the Vice President and such and such ministers or mayors and their little bubbles, it is one thing.

Another thing is what happened ”.

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Source: clarin

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