A few days ago, like all patients in my EPS, I received a notice inviting people to get vaccinated against COVID, saying that “the WHO recommends that people in risk groups take an additional dose of the vaccine against COVID-19.” . Next, they explain which population is prioritized: pregnant women, people over 60 years of age, human health talent and the population with comorbidities, which are many, including obesity, COPD, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, hypertension, HIV and mental disorders. coagulation. I prepared to get the fifth dose, because I am a person over 60 with one of those comorbidities, because my last vaccine was a year and a half ago, because I know that in other countries they have already stopped giving the bivalent vaccine (which the Ministry of Health does not He wanted to accept because he still had monovalents) to the one he warns against the latest variant and because I know people who are currently infected and are having a very bad time. Well, the polite response they gave me after the, I imagine, automatic invitation is that there are and will not be biological ones for now. I investigated with a senior official from the EPS, on whom the acquisition of vaccines depends, who gave me to understand that the confusion in the Ministry of Health is colossal, that no one seems interested in the issue of vaccination and that they are not responsible for a problem either. that has been reported for a long time: the shortage of medicines. Not to mention the million-dollar sums that the Government owes to the EPS and which I imagine it does not pay as one more strategy to lead them to their disappearance.
The bad news is brought in figures by a serious and detailed report by La Silla Vacía, dated September 22 of this year, which is worth reading. The first: that according to the same Ministry of Health, “so far in 2023, 3,829 boys and girls under four years of age have been diagnosed with COVID, of which 306 were hospitalized, 41 were admitted to the intensive care unit and seven “They died.” And that 25,555 cases of people carrying the virus have been detected, as well as 632 deaths, the majority over 60 years of age who did not have a complete vaccination schedule. The numbers seem low in relation to those of the pandemic, but no figure is low when it comes to the death of someone loved, something that could be accepted two years ago, but not today. People who have not contracted the virus are at great risk, the expert explained to me, because we do not have the relative immunization that the disease provides and because we do not know how we will react to it.
But there is other news, reported on the same portal: during the Petro government, $300,000 million (yes, you read that correctly) in anti-COVID vaccines have been lost, 7.8 million doses in the last two months (until September), almost in its entirety due, and the country is at risk of another four million falling due in the next four months. This, dear readers, in the world power of life that is promoted 20 times every night on national television, while vaccination campaigns plummeted and while former minister Fernando Ruiz is unfairly accused of having gone too far when he bought vaccines for 70 % of the population at a time of total risk. They didn’t learn anything.
2023-10-15 02:07:00
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