A part of the largest and most traditional brewery in Quilmes has become vaccinated. In the Beer Park This Tuesday it is the first time for the boys of between 12 and 17 years with comorbidities. In the waiting room some nervousness is evident: some of the future vaccinated move their leg without stopping. A boy of about 14, 15 years cries. He runs a disposable tissue over his eyes. Mom caresses her shoulder. Through a screen they call him to one of the ten boxes installed in the huge white tent. “It’s a prick”, they calm him down. He, who has some kind of maturational delay, does not let go of his mother’s hand at any time. The puncture arrives. The scene is crowned with a long hug between mother and son. And then the boy also hugs the nurse who gave him the vaccine.
“You feel the emotion of having started the vaccination of minors, which seemed distant and today is a reality”Celebrates Santiago Monsulo, the coordinator of this vaccination post, one of the 153 that were available in the province for this group. Children with asthma, obesity – according to what their parents say, a problem that worsened in the pandemic – and respiratory diseases arrive. It is around 3 pm and there is a line outside the Park. Santiago and other members of the organization are approached all the time by parents who arrive without a turn and leave angry and by elderly people who ask about the second dose of another vaccine. For Santiago, vaccinating adults is very different from vaccinating adolescents. “We went down a line to decompress, to get rid of their fears. And to take them as subjects. They can give their opinion. If they do not want to be vaccinated, it is taken into account, despite the opinion of the father. The protagonist is the minor ”, he defines.
In the parents he does not see as many doubts as he expected. Many consulted pediatricians before registering their children. “Since most parents have already been vaccinated, they know more or less what it is about. But since only Moderna’s vaccine is authorized for minors, they ask more about the vaccine than about the act itself. About efficacy or if it involves a different reaction, but it’s all the same ”, slides the 21-year-old.
The entrance to the Park is musicalized by the parrots that have their nests in the trees that are there and that capture all the attention. There is a gazebo where the shift is checked and another called “Prevaccination” in which you have to answer questions about inoculation. In a large white tent is the waiting room, with chairs arranged at a distance, where the children can be with the companion. Over 13 can go alone, but most arrive with someone. This Tuesday those who are between 14 and 15 years old predominate. “Some want to experience the puncture alone; they send the parents to the waiting room ”, Santiago details. In the same tent are the boxes and, in the background, the sector where the certificates are delivered. Reggaeton sounds there.
Inside the boxes you can see the extra effort of the health personnel when dealing with minors. “The arm can get red, so you put on a cold cloth. And you can tell dad to buy you ice cream, “says a vaccinator to a pre-adolescent with Down syndrome. “Or a chori,” interrupts the father. They ask the girl what she prefers; responds that a chori. In another box there is a difficult situation. They are not frequent, so it can be perceived. A late boy refuses to get vaccinated. “If he doesn’t want to, I can’t apply it to him,” the vaccinator clarifies to her companion. They have been trying to convince him for a long time. When he calms down, Viviana appears, a nurse with more than three decades of experience. It gives you the injection without problems in a second and it is withdrawn. For her companions she is a heroine. “It’s going to be soft”, “nothing happens”, “you want a little water”, “it doesn’t hurt”, “are you afraid?”, “Did it hurt?”, “I congratulate you”, is heard from the boxes, where the instructions for the post are also transmitted. The fellows, who bring and bring people, are also warm. After the puncture, parents are heard saying to the scared boys “did you see? It was not so bad.” They also offer some kind of reward for the sacrifice.
“I have not yet noticed any boy with fear. They must have their fears, but we make them a joke to get them into the environment ”, says Diego Riedel, a nurse who a little later will be vaccinating boys with difficulties who cannot get out of the cars in which they arrive. Prefer adults to be next to teens at the time of the puncture. “More than anything so they can see that we load the vaccine and disposable material ”, he explains. “The boys are calm, excited. Just like parents, They are curious about the vaccine, because it is new and we are only applying it today. Parents ask if it brings any symptoms; they compare it with others. We are going to see as the days go by what experience we have, ”says vaccinator Xoana Bogado. “Some parents are afraid that the vaccine will increase the pathology of their children. Many do not decide to vaccinate them because of what they hear in the media. It is said, for example, that Moderna gives myocarditis, but it is a coincidence: the boy already had it, the mother does not take him to the doctor often and they discover it. It is not because of the vaccine, “adds another vaccinator, María Cáceres.”I did not hesitate. He is vaccinated against everything”Claudia, Mateo’s mother (15), sentenced in the waiting room.
Vaccination in CABA
“At last it arrived … it seemed that it was not going to arrive”, celebrates Fernanda, mother of María Dolores (16), with Down syndrome, at the gates of the Club San Lorenzo, Boedo headquarters. In CABA, 9,300 shifts were granted for four posts (La Rural, Parque Roca and Centro Vehicular Costa Salguero are the others). The press is not allowed to enter any. The interior of the club was decorated with pennants and balloons. At the entrance, in the open air, you see chairs set up to wait if there are any problems after the vaccine. The boys come out happy with the certificate in hand. They make faces at the television cameras waiting for them outside.
“It went well for me, I was nervous, it didn’t hurt,” says Adrián (12), who has autism. Facundo is 14 years old, has weight problems and agrees: “I was a little scared but it was fast, a fool, you don’t feel anything.” His mom, Sandra, reveals that she was hesitant to write it down. “I also hesitated to sign up, but I really think it makes no sense if one gets vaccinated and the other doesn’t. The truth, I trust. I think positive and that he will be fine. There are parents who are waiting to see what happens with the first ones to get vaccinated. He told me today, jokingly, that it was a little mouse“, says Sandra. Angela and David take their brother in a stroller. Santiago (17) has chronic non-evolutionary encephalopathy. After the fear they felt about what could happen to Santiago in the middle of the pandemic if he contracted coronavirus, Angela and David were they withdrew from CASLA relieved.
Iara is 14 and has been on medication for severe bronchial asthma since she was three years old. She was very nervous about getting vaccinated, but the nurse’s treatment reassured her. He ended up speaking to him in Japanese, a language he studies. In 2020, he was so scared of going out on the streets that his parents started saving money to travel to the United States to see if he could get vaccinated there. That is why they live this day as a “blessing”.
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