46% of the vaccines administered in Brazil are from AstraZeneca, 45% Sinovac, 8% Pfizer and 1% J&J. Until the end of May, Brazil had received less than 3 million doses from Pfizer, although it contracted 100 million. Almost all the vaccines used were produced in Brazil.
If Chile, Uruguay, Brazil or Argentina had relied on Pfizer vaccines, vaccination would have started much later, as is the case in Peru. With difficulties, all the countries implemented the solutions that they considered necessary and adequate.
In some cases the solution was to massively use vaccines “without papers” and perhaps less effective, as in Chile, Brazil and Uruguay, in others part of the solution was to bet on vaccines with less press and “papers” such as Sputnik V, as it did. Argentina.
In Brazil, above all, but also in Argentina, another solution was to implement what was necessary for our own national production. From each country you must judge what it did with what it could and had available. Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina did many things well.
Brazil also has the merit of being able to start and sustain a vaccination process in the face of the absolute lack of initiative – or directly the boycott – of the Bolsonaro government.
Chile was excellent, Uruguay started later but also. The two countries managed to vaccinate their population faster than Europe, and although it is said that the vaccines used are less effective, it does not matter, they produced immunity in their population before that in europe
Argentina and Brazil, with their own solutions and “unorthodox” agreements, achieved a vaccination that is only a little more than a month behind developed countries. No matter how they want to tell you, the reality is that.
Between the noise and the smoke, the reality is that today Argentina has its entire population at risk and a large part of its adult population, with immunity granted by vaccines, just over a year after the pandemic began.
In the midst of a great circulation of the virus and the active boycott of control measures by some media and opposition politicians, Argentina – and Brazil under different conditions, the boycott was by the government – have managed to protect a large part of their population.
That they do not distract us with misinformation and biased information, with a discouragement campaign that is only political and without basis in the reality of what is happening with vaccination. Each vaccine in each arm is a triumph for all Argentines, including those who do not see it.
* Ernesto Resnik is an Argentine molecular biologist who lives and works in the United States. His voice became one of the most authoritative in the dissemination of scientific information about the pandemic.
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