Silvia Gomez
04/05/2021 18:59
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 04/05/2021 19:07
"Mitigate the risk".
This is the concept that governs the
vaccination
campaign
against the coronavirus, one of the most important in history.
And this is the reason, also why the national State determined stages for the application of vaccines against Covid.
The idea of
immunizing the population most at risk
advances with some differences, depending on the jurisdictions.
For example, in the Province of Buenos Aires, vaccination is random and reaches both those under 60 years of age with underlying diseases, such as diabetes or obesity, and teachers.
While the City, for its part, began with those over 80 and to continue decided to postpone the immunization of teachers to advance with those over 75, 70 and even advance those who have
previous illnesses.
As of this Monday afternoon, there were
39,726 vaccinated people over 75 years old,
120,314 over 80 and 12,842 nursing home residents.
Precisely in relation to its population of older adults, the Buenos Aires government has been raising before the national the need to
rethink the distribution of the doses it receives
;
especially considering that the three brands -Sputnik V, Sinopharm and Covishield- are authorized by the ANMAT (National Administration of Medicines, Food and Technology) to be applied at +60.
This is how the Head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, let the President, Alberto Fernández, this weekend, when they held a meeting by zoom.
From there it emerged that the first national president asked to
include PAMI in the campaign
.
On this issue, this Monday afternoon it emerged that the national government could send vaccines to PAMI directly.
However, details on
how the measure would be implemented
have not yet been made explicit
.
The central argument in Larreta's request is that, as happens in most cities around the world,
Buenos Aires also has an aging population
.
One of the reasons for this condition in large cities is the low birth rate;
births are below the generational replacement rate, which is 2.1 (1.8 in CABA).
Vaccination campaign in the City.
So far it has included some 16,000 teachers, but in the next stages it will prioritize older adults and people with previous illnesses.
Photo: Maxi Failla
With the beginning of what all the health authorities identify as the
second wave of infections
-and a little against the clock trying to reach winter with the largest number of vaccinated neighbors-, the focus of the Buenos Aires government is placed on the immunization of
those over 70 years old
.
The highest number of deaths is concentrated in this group.
28% of those over 80 who contracted the virus, died;
and nearly 14% of the people who contracted the virus and died were between the ages of 70 and 79.
Together, both age groups account for 42% of deaths.
According to sources from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, it is estimated that the City concentrates
9.5% of the total
elderly in the country
(in addition to 19% of the health personnel)
.
Based on these percentages, it demands a greater quantity of vaccines,
in the order of 9 to 10%.
So far, the City receives an average
of 7% of total shipments.
The visibility of this demand is not new, but it began to intensify in recent weeks.
In the first days of March, Fernán Quirós, in one of his usual conferences, made his vision on the subject clear: "The Nation has made a distribution decision based on the general population, when the vaccine is applied to
risk groups and risk groups are not proportional in all jurisdictions
. The City has a health worker load much higher than the average in Argentina and has a much older population pyramid, "he said.
Although the +75 vaccination started on Wednesday of last week, there is still a very important remnant of shift allocation at +80.
According to the City's open data website, with figures updated to date: 117,058 +80 shifts were granted and there are 24,224 people waiting to receive theirs.
While in the other age groups, the City has already registered
188,195 residents
: 83,288 are +75 and 104,907 are +70.
52,041 shifts were granted and
30,478 people older than 75 years have already been vaccinated.
From the Ministry of Health, they explained that
they have not yet begun to grant shifts for +70
.
They hope to be able to access the new shipment of vaccines from
Sinopharm and Sputnik V
to organize the logistics of what
lies
ahead.
Those who have not registered can do so on the website of the Buenos Aires Government.
It is estimated that in the City the universe of people who must be vaccinated
is 1,200,000,
this includes health personnel (public workers, private establishments, nursing homes and independent), adults +70, residents in nursing homes, adults + 60, strategic personnel (teachers and members of the security forces), neighbors between 18 and 59 years old with risk factors and finally other strategic groups (state working on issues related to the pandemic, for example).
Regarding the arrivals of vaccines in the last week.
On Sunday, March 28, 218,400 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines arrived, from the COVAX fund;
on Tuesday, 300,000 Sputnik V, of which 250,000 belonged to component 1 and 50,000 to component 2;
on Thursday, a million doses of Sinopharm.
Finally this Sunday, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrived in the country with 500,000 first doses of Sputnik V. Of this total income, the City should receive approximately
141,260 vaccines
.
From the Buenos Aires Health area they clarify that between the delivery of the shipment from the Nation to the City, around
seven days pass
until the vaccine reaches the arm of the neighbors.
With these shipments received in the last week, and since the beginning of the immunization process, Argentina has already received a total of
7,266,500 doses.
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