Hugo López-Gatell, undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, had a confrontation with the journalist Peniley Ramírez, after the reporter questioned him about the efficacy and authorization in Mexico of the vaccine from the Chinese laboratory CanSino Bio.
The Univisión journalist appeared for the second time at the National Palace’s evening conference to address the official on CanSino vaccine data.
“With how much data from the Mexican participants of the clinical trial in phase III was this vaccine approved?”, “What was the lower range index of the confidence interval that you obtained, considering this 5% that you presented to the National Academy Medicine? “, and” How much data has been processed since the emergency use of the vaccine was authorized and what is the confidence interval today? “were some questions that the communicator made on Tuesday.
In response, López-Gatell pointed out that the approval was thanks to technical reports from Chile’s Sanitary Regulation Agency.
“All vaccines that are in use around the world are in an emergency use authorization process, clinical trials are still open,” he said.
Considering the state of pandemic, the need must be balanced with the certainty of the information
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However, the question that caused the controversy was when Ramírez insisted and asked the official if the Committee for New Molecules (CMN) in Mexico recommended “yes or no” the authorization of the vaccine, to which López Gatell evaded the question.
“These are Cofepris deliberations, this is reserved,” he replied. “So you don’t know?” Peniley replied.
After this, Hugo López-Gatell, visibly upset, pointed out that he was giving more time to her than to other reporters who have been covering the conference for more than 15 months and accused her of trying to misinform the population.
Is that you have tried to take things to distort the information, or tell me you want to listen or want to continue raising your position to misinform
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She denied that her intention was to misinform and replied noting that in “5 minutes she has not answered anything”, and has evaded the question.
In addition, Peniley reminded him that on February 10, he announced that Cofepris had approved the emerging use of the Chinese CanSino vaccine, as well as that of Sinovac in a virtual event with the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico.
Mexico needs many Peniley Ramírez and less Hugos López Gatell. (Video taken from a tweet by @ferbelaunzaran, to whom I take the opportunity to send a hug in gratitude for his participation in the last election). pic.twitter.com/SiqgDbezyL
– Jorge Guajardo (@jorge_guajardo) June 9, 2021
Finally, López-Gatell emphasized that all vaccines against the new coronavirus are in emergency use, since clinical trials take between 3 and 5 years.
And that the data obtained to approve the vaccine in Mexico was from a clinical trial in Pakistan.
@HLGatell said today to @UInvestiga:
– Mexico approved CanSino vaccine with data from Pakistan (confidence interval 5-74%), from Chile (interval 39.5% lower) and says it does not know or cannot say how many from Mexico?
– Nor does he know if the Committee in MX recommends approval or not.— Peniley Ramírez (@penileyramirez) June 9, 2021
It should be noted that all this stems from a publication made by the Reforma columnist, where official data reveals that the CanSino vaccine was approved in Mexico with a minimum efficacy of 5 percent.
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