For now, few data from the 2022 Census have been released. The most salient of those revealed is the
amount of population in the country and in each province
.
The information makes it possible to articulate these official data with other key data from the
Covid
pandemic : those that emerge from the Public Vaccination Monitor.
When weighing the number of vaccines applied in each province with the population figure, the
number of vaccines applied per inhabitant
arises .
The first worrying conclusion is that
only one district in the country
has managed to make that number
greater than three
.
The City of Buenos Aires, with a population of 3,120,612 people, applied 10,201,970 doses.
That yields an average of
3.26 vaccines
per inhabitant.
It's just an average.
Part of the population received four and even five doses, while another part received just two, one or -marginally- none.
The national average, with just over 114 million doses applied, stands at
2.48 doses per inhabitant
.
Above the average,
only nine provinces
are located and some surprises arise.
The second province that applied the most vaccines per inhabitant was Formosa, which greatly improved its performance from the beginning of the pandemic to the present, thanks to the itinerant vaccination policy that was established in the different regions.
Formosa, with a population of 606,041 people, applied 1,744,035 doses, which gives an average of
2.87 vaccines per inhabitant
.
Then follow La Pampa, with
2.86
vaccines applied per capita and another province that is among the best: Catamarca, with an average of
2.77
doses.
Santa Fe managed to recover ground in recent months and reached fifth place in the ranking, with
2.70
vaccines per person.
Sixth place went to La Rioja (
2.67
) and just in seventh place another of the provinces that used the available stock the fastest appeared: San Luis, which applied an average of
2.63
vaccines per inhabitant.
The list continues with Río Negro (
2.52
) and the province of Buenos Aires (
2.50
).
In the latter case, there is the particularity that the district
has 5,148,473 unapplied vaccines in stock
.
There ends the list of provinces that appear above the national average.
Below that limit there are
15 districts
: Santiago del Estero (2.46), Santa Cruz (2.40), Neuquén (2.39), Corrientes (2.39), Jujuy (2.38), Córdoba (2 .33), Entre Ríos (2.31), Mendoza (2.30), Tierra del Fuego (2.25), San Juan (2.22), Tucumán (2.20), Chubut (2.15), Chaco (2.12), Salta (2.09) and Misiones (1.74).
Vaccination in the province of Buenos Aires: it ranks ninth in the country in doses applied per inhabitant and has 5 million in stock.
Another observation that emerges from the analysis of the data is that there is a
strong immune gap
between the different provinces of the country.
The index of the "opulent" City of Buenos Aires almost doubles that of the last province in the table and is between 50 and 60 percent above a good part of the list.
Of the total of 114,305,322 vaccines applied throughout the country, 35.98 percent were first doses;
33.24 percent, second;
22.41 percent, third
;
6.85 percent, fourths;
and 1.49 percent, fifths.
A total of 125,061,062 were distributed, with which the stock available nationwide is 10,755,740 doses.
In the first week of January, when the infection numbers were still at the crest of the curve, the number of daily applications was an average of
59,566 doses
.
Now that streaming has dropped, demand has followed suit, averaging
23,203
.
Between emotional highs and lows that modify demand, the average number of doses applied since the beginning of the year was 41,384 doses.
At that rate, it would take
259 days
to apply the distributed stock.
This is without counting the
bivalent vaccines , of which
4.2 million doses
are expected to arrive in the country
between February 6 and 13, which will be added to the 900,000 already available since January 19.
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