Authorities from the Zacatecas Ministry of Health (SSZ) insist that the childhood vaccine against Covid-19 is safe despite presenting an expiration date of nine months ago; Four thousand 311 doses have already been applied in state schools.
At a press conference, Lucía Reyes Veyna, head of the SSZ Epidemiology department, stressed that the biological does not represent any danger to children between the ages of five and 11 to whom it is currently being applied, and insisted that it also has “good potency” to protect against infection.
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Ana María Monreal Ávila, director of Public Health, regretted that, due to erroneous information, parents and even teachers are preventing the application in schools, which has made it difficult to achieve the goal of immunizing 32,000 Zacatecan children before 16 of September
He reported that in at least three primary schools in the suburban area, the application that is currently in charge of SSZ, Social Security and ISSSTE personnel has been prevented, and he did not rule out that the number of schools in this situation is greater in municipalities. from within the state.
He reiterated that this “is not an expired vaccine” because according to laboratory tests, it has been shown that it has an extended life of 18 months after its preparation, which dates from March 2022.
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Aldo Alberto González, pediatrician in charge of the state Regional Training Center, acknowledged that the Coronavirus strains have modified their structure, but assured that the cross-immunity of this vaccine made before the mutations “is more beneficial than the risk of not vaccinating children”.
The pediatrician also warned that there are cases of immunosuppressed children whose lives could be in danger if they were infected without having the protection of the vaccine.
2023-09-06 18:07:23
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