Emilia vexler
02/25/2021 18:21
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/25/2021 18:21
It was not officially communicated as a change.
But it is.
The Government
abruptly changed
the original strategy of the Vaccination Plan against the coronavirus.
It was after the Vacunagate scandal.
When there are still many doctors who have not been immunized, the registration was launched for teachers to receive their dose.
Originally, teachers were ranked sixth in priority and physicians ranked first.
Even before the first batch of Sputnik V arrived in Argentina, from the president.
Far from being fully immunized for health personnel,
older adults began to be vaccinated
.
And, thus they are hitting jumps in the steps of priorities.
In turn, without ending the punctures in the group with the highest risk by age, "strategic personnel" were vaccinated - among which are state officials - who appeared in the
seventh priority rung.
Clarín
asked the Ministry of Health for an explanation for these changes, but they only replied that a request for access to public information should be made.
According to the Public Vaccination Monitor, of the
829,832
vaccines applied (558,831 people who received 1 dose and 271,001 who already have both), there were
745,426
applications to health personnel and 66,386 to those over 60. But the most striking thing, even, is that there are already
15,499
applications among strategic personnel, compared to just 2,470 in people aged 18 to 59 with risk factors.
Beyond these irregularities, why does the Province of Buenos Aires not finish vaccinating one group and
still start vaccinating the next
?
For example, the personnel of the Buenos Aires security forces joined the vaccination plan, and now the teachers.
Vaccination for people over 80 years of age at Club Vélez.
Photo: Federico Imas
"Because it is not the same situation by municipalities. There are more than 90 districts that have already finished vaccinating health personnel, they cannot wait for the entire province to finish. Our province is like six cities in Buenos Aires, with a very high population density. They will only stop (vaccination) when they vaccinate all their priority groups, that is, when they finish teachers, health security, over 60 and 18 to 59 years with comorbidities, "they explain to
Clarín
from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health.
Is it correct that you don't end with one group and start with the other?
For the renowned infectologist Eduardo López, it is "understandable" only in cases such as "municipalities that do not actually have to sit idly by if they have already completed a part of the scheme."
But he added: "In all the countries of the world the strategy was to first vaccinate all health personnel, except in Israel, where there was a model of simultaneous mass vaccination (several groups at the same time). But they still privileged health personnel We should finish vaccinating this group. The second priority is the adults over 60 years of age. Ideally, meet these two goals. Always. First. "
But the expert takes up the idea of "not standing idly by" with the vaccines available in the country.
"The Chinese Sinopharm vaccine has an overall efficacy of 79% but the efficacy in those over 60 is not explicitly stated. In spite of the fact that the clinical studies carried out in Argentina had volunteers over 80%. Therefore, I believe that
that is why it was decided to direct these vaccines to teachers
, who are mostly up to 59 years old, "he says.
Vaccination against Covid by the police forces in the province of Buenos Aires in the Police station in Puente 12. Photo: Mario Quinteros
"Some jurisdictions such as the province of Buenos Aires have already started the teacher registration process, others will do so in the coming days, we will implement
a transparent software process
, where there will be an application and a web page," said the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta.
Shortly after the takeoff of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Beijing to bring
904,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the country
, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, announced the beginning of the coronavirus vaccination campaign for teaching staff.
Trotta stressed that the amount of vaccines that will be destined for teachers were determined according to priority groups that will be "those who have the most contact with the student, including those at the initial level."
In total there are 1,450,000 teachers and the first group is 440,000.
In the six stages of the Vaccination Plan against COVID-19 in the City,
there were also changes
.
It started with health personnel (staggering according to activity risk) -which has not yet been completed- and, in parallel, it continued only with adults over 80 years of age and people who reside in nursing homes or homes for the elderly in Buenos Aires, when in Initially, it was thought to cover all those over 70 and up.
Then, if nothing changes, the priorities will come to those who are 60 to 69 years old, "after", to the strategic staff.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, differentiated himself from Nation and said that the batch of Sinopharm vaccines against the coronavirus that he receives will be used to complete the immunization "
of health personnel under 60 years old
" and "the remainder of each jurisdiction will will assign to the different strategic groups "in which they are security forces and teachers, according to the vaccination plan defined by the Nation.
There it is separated from the decision of the Province, which put the teachers before.
The Sinopharm for now was approved by the Anmat only for people from 18 to 59 years old.
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