after the “stale” from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they ensure that it is not activated

Legal but immoral? There is no word in English to settle this question. Neither in Spanish. At the lunfardo, the vaccination of Dora, the mother of panelist Yanina Latorre, and that of media lawyer Ana Rosenfeld, were summed up on social networks as “faded”. An Argentinian aviator and two free doses. In Miami, after a report from the Telemundo network, the discomfort of residents who have not yet accepted the vaccine, “vaccination tourism” was summed up in one sentence: It is not fair (it is not fair).

Neither woman has a residence in the United States. But they traveled to the country where they took the Capitol a few days ago and Dora took the Pfizer and the divorce expert that of Moderna. In legal language, we also speak of a “legal vacuum”, although this figure does not exist. Anyway, after the scandal, (which is not binational because, for example, many tourists from Canada and Brazil will be arriving in South Florida these days just to give themselves the doses), specifies the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bugle that it has “never been activated”.

According to Miami-Dade County guidelines, the top priority for vaccination, after seniors in nursing homes, caregivers and health workers in the front line of battle against the coronavirus, are residents of Miami County aged 65 or older. This can be read, without ambiguity, on the official Miami-Dade website. He says “residents”. But has anyone noticed that neither Dora nor Rosenfeld has an American residence? No.

“The restrictions on who receive the vaccine have always existed. It has never been activated (vaccination tourism). We regret the irresponsible attitude of some fellow citizens,” they say from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This clarification comes in addition to an official “advice” from the government in the last few hours: “Do not go abroad”, given the imminent reduction in flight frequencies.

he Miami herald describes these trips to get the hang of the covid and discomfort of those who are residents: “Those over 65 from countries like Argentina, Canada and Brazil also access South Florida’s vaccination portals hoping to get a change to get vaccinated. For those who can afford the trip, South Florida has long been a medical tourism mecca, especially for citizens of Latin American countries with infrastructure weakened health. ”Argentina fits perfectly into this group and the news is that the health trip, now, is for the vaccine.

It has not yet been officially communicated whether there will be other checks – such as showing the certificate of residence or green card– before people over 65 receive the dose in that county. But what is clear is that the attitude of traveling to get vaccinated is in the spotlight in the United States.

Although some South Florida health officials encourage anyone who meets the requirements the elderly get vaccinated from the car (like Dora), whether tourists can get vaccinated or not depends, for now, on hospitals. This is so even when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis distinguished between temporary residents and “health tourists.”

“We are discouraging people from coming to Florida just to get the vaccine,” DeSantis said Monday at a press conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. “If they have a residence and they’re not just flying to stay a week or two, I’m totally okay with that (with the vaccination). They’re very different from someone who just introduced himself, who says get hit and get in somewhere; obviously we’re not going to do that, ”he said.

Just as there is only one word left to describe this situation, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suárez, added a new one to the controversy: “It is disgusting that they come to be vaccinated”.

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