Argentina enters the last 12 days of the month with the almost assured objective that all people over 18 who have registered or who want to be vaccinated will be vaccinated, at least with one dose. The stock of doses is enormous – more than ten million vaccines arrived in the first fortnight – and The province of Buenos Aires is already citing a large number of 18-year-olds, so that it will arrive in time before July 31 for the vaccination of all the elderly. In CABA they say that they are applying many second doses and therefore the process is somewhat more delayed. In principle it is almost certain that they will open the group of 18 to 24 years before next weekend and everything indicates that they will complete the vaccination of the elderly also on July 31. The Ministry of Health of the Nation, headed by Carla Vizzotti, awaits this week the authorization in the United States of the application of Moderna to adolescents. The next step would be the approval of the Anmat and the vaccination would then be discontinued for 12 to 17 years or before the end of the month or at the beginning of August.
objective
The vaccination rate became dizzying and in almost all the districts the goal of having all those of legal age vaccinated before the 31st will be met.
The Buenos Aires ministry led by Daniel Gollán and Nicolás Kreplak has about 160,000 people vaccinated daily. It is one percent of the population per day, the highest rate that the United States achieved, for example, when it vaccinated more people. As is known, the Buenos Aires district has already completed vaccination in 70 municipalities, so that in order not to lower the number of vaccinated, it has to focus on the large municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires and also on what is being done: vaccinate without shifts. It is said that this week, Governor Axel Kicillof would announce free vaccination for those over 30 years of age and free vaccination for all ages is on the horizon.
In CABA they threaten to delay the vaccination of young people between 18 and 24 with the argument that they are applying many second doses. However, It is almost certain that the ministry that is in charge of Fernán Quirós will open the registration for porteños from 18 to 24 on Friday the 23rd or, at the latest, on Monday the 26th.
Seconds
As is known, there is a delay in the production of Sputnik V component 2, and that means that the second dose of those who received the first is only being completed until April 3. This weekend, the Province of Buenos Aires sent 260,000 citations for Tuesday and Wednesday to apply 2 doses of Sputnik V to those who received the first dose until approximately April 3.
The Buenos Aires district is complying with the application of dose 2 of Oxford / AstraZeneca eight weeks after receiving component 1 and in the case of Sinopharm the period is shorter: 21 days. In CABA the rhythm is similar. Sputnik 2 have already been applied to those who received the first dose before April 3. In the case of Sinopharm the appointment is 21 days after the initial dose and for Oxford / AstraZeneca at 56 days.
There are very few days of difference between one district and another because there are enough vaccines, except for dose 2 of Sputnik V. As is known, there is a backlog in Russian production, so we will have to wait for a new plane to come – there is a promise from the Gamaleya Institute and the Russian Direct Investment Fund to close the gap this month – or to authorize 1,050,000 finished doses by the Richmond Laboratory. That would happen before the end of July or the beginning of August. For now, there is a deficit of about 700,000 doses 2 according to the calculation of Martín Barrionuevo, so it would be covered with a new shipment and those finished in Argentina.
Teenagers
As is known, on Friday night 3,500,000 doses of the North American vaccine arrived from the Moderna laboratory. The authorization of the FDA of the United States, the regulatory authority of the northern country, is imminent so that it can be applied to adolescents between 12 and 17 years old. In the Ministry that Vizzotti leads, he thinks that once authorized in the United States, the same will be done in Argentina, almost at the same time.
From that moment on, it will begin to be applied, starting with adolescents with previous illnesses.
The age range from 12 to 17 is very important because the boys are infected, contrary to what the deniers and the spokesmen of Together for Change have always maintained, and they also have a lot of circulation. It is very possible that vaccination will begin before the end of the month and it will be one of the great objectives of August.
Not registered
Argentina has a huge percentage of registered, many more than in most countries. However, the fifteen percent who are reluctant encompass some two million citizens, a significant number of Argentines with a probability of catching and infecting. In the province of Buenos Aires, during the week that starts Not only will vaccinations continue in train stations, but there will be teams visiting rural areas and vaccinators will be established in the Central Market. An operation is being prepared, house by house, similar to the ones they did so that all people had ID.
In the Buenos Aires district and also in CABA, a secret seems to be in free vaccination, without shifts. This enables people who do not have a computer or smart cell phone to approach them and who, in addition, feel that getting vaccinated is not complicated, that it is at hand. As Minister Gollán has been advancing, the idea is to multiply the mobile vaccinations, in the neighborhoods, and the teams going house to house. About 10,000 spontaneous they are getting vaccinated every day in the province of Buenos Aires.
Vaccines
Vaccine provision is no longer at the center of the scene. In the first 16 days of the month, 10,500,000 doses arrived and in the week that begins, more Aerolineas Argentinas flights should land, bringing another 3,400,000 doses of Sinopharm.
To this should be added at least two million Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines, the active substance of which was manufactured in Garin’s mAbxience laboratory and are being finished in Albuquerque. In total, the contract establishes 22 million doses and for now only about eight million have arrived. In July there was a single shipment of 733,000, when the promised was around three million. Maybe they will arrive in the second half of the month.
More Aerolineas Argentinas flights should also leave and return to Moscow, which promised to regularize shipments and increase them. In this case, an obstacle of the utmost importance arose: contagions increased sharply in Russia and the government of Vladimir Putin is making an axis in the vaccination of Russian citizens.
The contract for 5,400,000 doses of the Canadian-Chinese Cansino vaccine is pending. The authorization of the shipments is being managed in the ministries of Beijing. There are versions that speak that they could start coming before the end of the month and others say that only in the first days of August.
And finally, the clearance process for the completed Sputnik Vs at Richmond Laboratory is almost certain to be completed. 1,300,000 doses 1 and 1,050,000 doses 2 are already available.
In the next few days the contracts with Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson will be signed, but in principle the vaccines from both North American laboratories would arrive in 2022.
The vaccines that are already available and those that are to arrive in the next few days guarantee the flow and the rhythm. Everything suggests that by July 31 they will be vaccinated, at least with one dose, almost everyone over 18 and that it would start with adolescents. It will be until August to complete the vaccination with the second dose, a goal more than possible.
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