Long lines to get vaccinated in San José
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(CRHoy.com) .- After the start of the massive vaccination day against COVID-19, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) said this Saturday that pFor a safety issue, the preservation of vaccines for the rest of the week must be guaranteed Y cannot make enough doses available to meet the high demand for the drug.
“If we took them all out together, we would have to apply all at once, which is impossible for any health area ”, affirmed Dr. Armando Villalobos, director of the integrated network of Central South Health Services Provision, alleging that there is a maximum capacity.
“You cannot get all vaccines at one time Because this is from a Pfizer technology that has strict cold chain controls, so the scheduled of the day is taken and in exceptional conditions, when the demand exceeds the planned, what is done is to reorganize within a network of services the distribution of vaccines, ”the Fund explained in a statement.
The manifestations of the entity occur after hundreds of people lined up for hours to get vaccinated between Friday and Saturday, even under under strong sun, but they failed to get a dose of the injection against the respiratory virus.
Such is the case of a campaign that was carried out in the Health Area of Heredia, in the Oxygen mall, where around 3 pm the 1,500 were sold out available doses.
In addition, even climatic factors have affected vaccination. “In the Huetar Atlántica region the rains that come from the night of this Friday and they remained during this Saturday, could have affected people’s attendance to the vaccination posts during the morning, except in Talamanca ”, said the Fund.
Thus, the application of vaccines was uneven in different parts of the country.
“While some vaccination points of the Fund had a massive presence of people, in other areas of the country the influx was low”, Recognized the entity.
Faced with this situation, a contingency plan was applied to open to other age groups without risk factors and to encourage people to come to the vaccinations.
This weekend’s campaign was coordinated after the donation of 500,000 doses by the United States government.
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