According to open data from Ministry of Health of the Nationthe vaccines that have expired since the start of the immunization program in our country will be discarded due to the Covid-19as well as the remaining ones that expire next month of March.
It is worth remembering that in Argentina more than 113 million doses against the coronavirusand little more than 10,000,000 serums were distributed to the provinceswaiting to be applied.
Likewise, since December 2020, when the vaccination campaign began with the Sputnik-V rusasthey beat the whole country 1,107,742 dosesindicate the official data.
Given the sharp increase in cases that was registered in the country, the documents reveal that the portfolio led by Carla Vizzotti had until December 19, 2022 some 3,927,760 vaccines in its warehouses, of which 879,020 will expire between January 16 and on February 28. In other words, 22.38% of what is available expires in just a month and a half.
At the same time, 2,141,500 expire between March 8 and 11 nextthis is 54.52% of the stock in the storage sites of the Ministry of Health of the Nationcontributes the north currents site.
By last, 901,440 will expire in June of this year.
From the papers it appears that on December 31, 2022 they expired 5,800 Pfizer vaccines pediatric, but the public data of the Ministry of Health they do not allow us to identify whether or not these doses were supplied before that date.
An important fact is that, of the almost 4 million vaccines in stock that have not yet been distributed to the provinces, more than half (2,141,500) correspond to pediatric doses that expire in March of this year. They are sera acquired from the laboratory Modern.
On January 5th, with Vizzotti at the head, the Federal Health Council agreed to start the application of the first booster in children and adolescents.
In the middle of 2022 the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported, through a video on social networks, that according to information provided by the laboratories, the expiration date of the vaccines can be extended up to six more months.
“There is a mechanism to know if the vaccine remains the same after the expiration date. As time goes by, the laboratory continues to test the stability of the first vials that it left unopened. If the vaccine retains its properties, it submits its data to regulatory entities to extend expiration dates. In other words, if the vaccine, 12 months after it is produced, is the same as at the time it was prepared, the expiration date – which was originally 6 months – is extended by another six months,” the Health portfolio reported.
