Pfizer Vaccine Shortage at Mexican Red Cross Headquarters in Polanco

From 5:45 a.m., on the outskirts of the Mexican Red Crossat its headquarters in Polanco, people who wanted to get the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19However, the doses were insufficient due to the demand of those interested.

However, Isabel Carreño said she was “happy” because she managed to get vaccinated early.

Prior to this start, the director of Asofarma’s Vaccine Business Unit, Alejandra Espinosa de los Monteros Arámbula, said that the company was making progress in the commercialization of the Moderna vaccine, which “many are waiting to purchase.”

In interview with The reasonEspinosa de los Monteros Arámbula said that although the price at which Moderna’s biological will be sold has not yet been defined, the market study carried out by the company indicates that the price “will be the most accessible for the Mexican population.”

He also added: “Spikevax will be for sale to intermediary companies, which in turn will be responsible for delivering them to hospitals, vaccination centers, private doctors and pharmacies (with an attached office) that request them.”

Likewise, the director said that Spikevax is indicated to be applied from six months of age, and each vial or unit “can be used for 5 doses in people 12 years of age and older and for 10 pediatric doses, always keeping it between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius the Spikevax vaccine is maintained for 30 days.

“Once the vial is opened, there is a margin of 19 hours for the total doses to be applied. And in this case, during the application, the biological can be at room temperature of up to 25 degrees or it can be returned to the refrigerator.”

While the Moderna vaccine hits the shelves, – which they warn – would be this week, citizens, mainly from Mexico City, continue to go to the application of the Pfizer vaccine at different points of sale, as was the case this Thursday at the Mexican Red Cross, Polanco headquarters.

Isabel Carreño, originally from the State of Mexico and aged 87, went to have the corresponding application done and was the first to receive the biological at 9:00 a.m.

She indicated: “I feel safer with this vaccine than with others, and that makes me very happy.”

Meanwhile, Jorge Forastieri Muñoz, state delegate of the Red Cross of the State of Mexico, told The reason that from the beginning it was commented that during the first day there would only be 100 units for the application, but that they will continue to obtain more doses in a staggered manner, with the aim of having better management of the Pfizer product, which by the way, he expressed is the place where “it is cheapest, thanks to negotiations with the company.”

In addition to Polanco, the locations where the vaccine is administered at the Red Cross are: Cuajimalpa, Lilas, Toluca, Naucalpan and Cuautitlán, all of these locations in the State of Mexico.

In addition, he reported that each delegation has 100 biologicals per day, with a cost of 785 pesos.

The organization’s delegate in the State of Mexico said that the organization had planned to begin the application on December 26, but they had to delay the date two days to complete the adaptation of its branches.

“The vaccine would begin to be administered on Monday, however, due to a logistics and conditioning issue in our delegations, it was not possible, because certain characteristics have to be present in the cold network, once the premises have been prepared, In order to have them at the proper temperature, we start with the campaign that we hope will be nourished,” he explained.

Forastieri Muñoz said that one of the objectives is to go to the mountains to market the vaccines at a “very low price, without profit, to protect its inhabitants from SARS-CoV-2.

“There are already talks with Pfizer to check if they have the possibility of receiving an immunological donation to apply it in vulnerable communities in the State of Mexico. They are accessible, but it is only the path of dialogue, later we will know if it is possible,” she said.

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2023-12-28 21:17:32
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