León, Gto., (OEM-Informex).- The Secretary of Health, Daniel Díaz Martínez, declared that in Guanajuato only vaccines against Covid-19 will be applied in October, which are endorsed by the
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The doctor emphasized that the Cuban vaccine Abdala and the Mexican Patria do not have international studies that support their safety and efficacy to be applied to Mexicans.
“It has to be a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization, let’s hope it is not the Cuban one and it is not yet available, even the one that was being applied in Mexico the information was reserved, and what we know is that they were from donations from organizations international organizations in which the Pan American Health Organization intervened, but unfortunately there is no way to buy it”.
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This was said, after the announcement made by the Undersecretary of Federal Health Hugo López Gatell, who stated this Tuesday at the press conference from the National Palace, that in October the campaign to apply the vaccine against Covid-19 will begin at the same time. of the campaign against influenza, which seeks to reinforce the application of the vaccine only to the population over 18 years of age.
“We are waiting for a vaccine to arrive that is approved by the World Health Organization, the federation has not brought together the country’s health secretaries to be able to tell us specifically what the brand of the vaccine would be and when it will arrive, hopefully and hopefully it will arrive in the month of October and that we begin to vaccinate both for Covid and influenza, since the seasonal behavior is very similar in both diseases”.
He added that it seeks to apply reinforcements to the most vulnerable people such as the elderly and pregnant women, to the health personnel who will be attending the cases that arrive in the medical services.
Regarding the Mexican vaccine, Patria stated that it has to be reviewed carefully if it was reconfigured, “we know that there is reengineering, nanotechnology is being applied, but when we have sufficient scientific evidence and the certainty that it is safe for the Guanajuato population, we will be applying it how We did it with the 11 million vaccines that we applied, I insist, we still do not know much about the Mexican vaccine, I would like to have more information as we do have about other vaccines that are produced in the world and that are applied quite safely ”
Fortunately, Díaz said that there is no high risk of death for people who do not have the vaccine booster in the next winter season, since with the vaccines that were applied in 2021 and natural infection, collective immunity arose. or herd.
“At first we were like newborns who did not have antibodies and we saw what happened, unfortunately it cost the lives of more than 15,000 Guanajuatenses, but now it is a different scenario, many have already received the infection, others have been vaccinated and those who think that it has not given them, possibly it did, but they did not have contact with the vaccine and the disease was very subtle and mild.”
He recalled that the investigations of the state health sector showed that more than 90% of the Guanajuato population already has antibodies.
The covid is here to stay and the virus will have a seasonal behavior, it will continue to be the most vulnerable people who should take more precautions such as adults over 65 years of age, those with hypertension, diabetes, cancer and some other comorbidity, in addition to women pregnant women and health personnel are the vulnerable groups”, he concluded.
2023-07-05 00:13:31
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