The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, assured that the province is “in good condition to face the cold season” because it has a supply of flu and anticovid vaccines and “a good percentage of vaccination”.
Speaking to a radio, Kreplak pointed out that a second reinforcement of the anticovid vaccine dose was authorized because “The Ómicrom variant changes a lot with respect to the other variants and the efficacy that was achieved before with two doses, in this variant it is achieved with three doses; then the effort is achieved much better with an extra dose”.
The Federal Health Council approved a new vaccine booster against Covid-19, prioritizing health personnel, people 50 years of age or older, people over 12 years of age with risk conditions, security forces and teachers.
Kreplak indicated that this new dose “possibly later spread to the rest of the population”
The minister indicated that while “we are in a pandemic, the risk, the aggression of the virus and its mutations is greater” and pointed out that “if it becomes a seasonal virus, perhaps I have much less capacity for mutation.”
In this sense, he pointed out that “in the world there are some variants of Ómicron that are generating outbreaks” and that from the province they are “observing what happens in the City of Buenos Aires” given that there, he said, the “authorities are looking at what has dropped (cases) and that they are worried about a possible rise.”
However, he assured that the province of Buenos Aires is “in good condition to face a cold season.” “We have vaccines, a good percentage of vaccination,” although he indicated that “it is not resolved that we are not going to have new waves,” he said.
Kreplak indicated that it will be seen in due course “what types of care measures can be taken, without being life-threatening.”
Asked about the use of chinstraps, he considered that it is “a lesser evil, taking into account what we had to suffer: staying at home, founding companies, businesses, not seeing sick relatives.”
“So terrible things have happened that perhaps if at some point the use of the mask is requested again to reduce contagion, it will be necessary for society to accompany it, which is not something capricious,” said Kreplak.
And, he limited: “We are watching because new variants may appear; we have to be vigilant because what we cannot say in a pandemic is ‘this is over’ and that we know what is to come”.
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