Ginés hopes to obtain collective immunity from July – News

In his presentation to the members of the Health Committee of the Lower House, the Minister gave information on the issue of vaccines against the coronavirus and among these points He recalled the reasons why an agreement with Pfizer could not be found.

“For the Argentine government, Pfizer has behaved very badly towards us”, he maintained, recalling that one of the objections of this international laboratory was the appearance of the word “negligence” in the law to contract the supply of vaccines, responding to a question from Pro MP Carmen Polledo.

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Accompanied by his team from the Ministry of Health, González García provided by videoconference a report to the Health Commission of the Lower House chaired by the legislator of Frente de Todos Pablo Yedlin on the health situation resulting from the pandemic and the plan for vaccination.

At the start of his presentation, he clarified that “no vaccine is endorsed by what appears in a magazine”, alluding to the publication of The Lancet on the effectiveness of Sputnik V, but “because of what they present as a systematized documentation”.

At that time, he stressed that “we have absolute peace of mind about the Russian vaccine”.

In this context, the official considered that “collective immunity would be obtained from July, and until then, we will mainly reduce mortality and serious effects ”.

Before a question from Radical MP Claudia Najul, said that the batch of vaccines will consist of 30 million Sputnik V; 22.4 million doses of AstraZeneca – over 1,200,000 under negotiation – and the 2.2 million from the global Covax fund.

In this sense, he stressed that “if we remove the 15 million Argentines who are under the age of 18, we have almost the Argentine population covered, and the truth is that what can be missing are two or three negotiations “.

Regarding the effectiveness of vaccines, González García said that “All vaccines are very good not only to prevent getting the disease, but especially to prevent death., reduce it by 100% ”and“ considerably reduce intensive care hospitalization ”.

In his report, the Minister mentioned at the doses Covax will send – the multinational body created by the World Health Organization for the distribution of vaccines – which will be 2.2 million doses, and in this sense he indicated that “this is the first thing they will deliver “.

He also estimated that the downsides of negotiations with China for the purchase of one million doses of Sinopharm vaccine in that country are the price and the number of doses.

“We worked intensely with them from day one, but the difficulties that exist today are that the price is high and we would need a million doses in no time, when China wants a formal contract for a lot more doses, and that’s worth twice as much as other vaccines. Likewise, the negotiations are not over, ”he declared.