Within the framework of the evaluation made by the health authorities on a possible fifth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19, the Minsal must have gone out to deny sending an email with false information that offered an additional dose.
The situation brought the focus back to the vaccination process, which has already reached a 92% coverage in primary schemes and a 90% with the two booster doses.
Nevertheless, the spread of new variants like the XE it has generated concern in other countries and has opened the possibility of reinforcing the inoculation with a fifth dose.
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We inform that the mail in which an additional dose is requested by the #Covid_19does not correspond to @ministeriosalud nor any institution in the field of health @Government of Chile pic.twitter.com/LadOyjApCO
– Seremi de Salud RM (@SeremiSaludRM) April 8, 2022
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About the above, the undersecretary of Public Health, Dr. Cristóbal Cuadrado indicated that the implementation of this new inoculation “It is something that is being evaluated with all the technical teams of CAVEI, which is the Immunization Advisory Council of the Ministry of Health, as well as with the National Commission for Pandemic Response, with which we are analyzing how the protection of people who have received a fourth dose.”
Likewise, the epidemiologist at the University of Chile, Gabriel Cavada, indicated that the concern should point to a possible new wave of infections. “We should expect a wave as fast or even a little faster than last summer’s wave, but probably a little more attenuated because so far it is not known to have greater resistance to vaccines,” he said.
In that line, the Medical College stressed that in this scenario we must focus on the lagging people receive their vaccination. The President of the union, Patricio Meza pointed out to Radio Biobio that a consensus has been reached that a fifth dose is important, “But more importantly, it is to see how to get a percentage of the population that has not yet completed their vaccination schedule to do so. Especially in the groups of the youngest children between 3 and 5 years old, there is still a very large group that has not been vaccinated”.
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