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Pediatrician Marco Páez explained from the Chisec Health Center, Alta Verapaz that the situation in that place is more difficult than anticipated, because people do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and misinformation has had a considerable impact.
From his Twitter account, the doctor explained that he was meeting the staff and would meet with the Comude de los Cocodes to discuss the vaccine during a visit to the Chisec Health Center, Alta Verapaz.
“The Chisec situation is more difficult than I had anticipated. It is one of the municipalities with the least coverage of Covid-19 vaccination in the entire Republic. They do not reach 10% coverage. People do not want to be vaccinated. The misinformation has done a lot of damage ”, he stressed.
Good morning from the Chisec AV health center, I ask God to take care of you and protect you, and by the way me too.
I am getting to know the staff and we will soon move to the COMUDE meeting with the COCODES to discuss the COVID19 vaccine. pic.twitter.com/v3V4kC0EfJ– Dr Marco Paez (@DrMarcoPaez) September 24, 2021
DISINFORMATION AROUND VACCINATION
Páez stressed that the person in charge of the Health Center told him that the neighbors refuse to be vaccinated because they have read misinformation about it on the Facebook social network, such as that a 5G chip will be installed, that their DNA will be altered, that the injection contains poison. or the virus, which the authorities seek to reduce the world population and “which is the mark of the beast.”
For this reason, he stressed to the Health personnel that in these cases cultural relevance becomes more relevant.
Midwives, firefighters and religious leaders attended the meeting in which the pediatrician participated.
MOST LEADERS DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE VACCINE AND USEFULNESS OF THE MASK
In fact, she added that most leaders do not believe in the vaccine or in the usefulness of the mask.
To talk with them they had the support of a Q’eqchi ‘language translator. Among the concerns of the population, some doubts arose that I try to resolve.
“Several said they were grateful that the vaccine had not been fully explained to them. And several of them said they understood that the vaccine looked good. It seems to me that there is an important influence of some religious leaders who are against the vaccine ”, he highlighted.
WHAT DO THE VACCINATION NUMBERS OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH SAY?
According to the Covid-19 Situation Board, the department of Alta Verapaz is the one that reports the lowest percentage of the population with the first dose applied with 17.4% and 165,951 administered doses of 953,506 people projected to immunize.
If people with a complete schedule are considered, it also has one of the lowest percentages with 7% representing 67,215 vaccinations.
While, in Chisec, the percentage of people with a complete scheme is 3%, that is, 2,129 vaccinations out of an estimated population of 71,848.
Regarding the percentage of the first dose, this municipality has 8.2% and the number of doses applied is located at 5,885.
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