Quotes and vaccination cards | All seniors registered before the end of the month

The province of Buenos Aires estimates that as of July 31, 100 percent of registered people over 18 will be vaccinated, at least with one dose. There are already 37 municipalities, all of them small, in which the vaccination of registrants has already been completed and the process is now moving towards the large municipalities. More than 120,000 citizens of Buenos Aires will need to be vaccinated per day, which is very feasible: the vaccination system exceeds 170,000 on certain days. At CABA, registration in Buenos Aires from 35 to 39 years old started with everything and it is likely that on Friday 9 the registrations will open for 30 to 34 year olds. In the worst case, it will be Tuesday the 13th. Regarding the second doses, it is public that it has been agreed to reduce the distance to 21 days in the case of Sinopharm and 60 in the case of Oxford / AstraZeneca. For both vaccines there are enough doses and more will come. The biggest difficulty is with the second dose of Sputnik, in which you also want to reduce the distance to 60 days. The pace will depend on the arrival of a plane this week with second doses of the Russian vaccine and, perhaps before the end of the month, with a game over at the laboratory in Richmond, in Greater Buenos Aires. At the same time, progress is being made in the study of the combination of vaccines.

Airplanes

Beyond the noise generated by the mainstream media and the opposition regarding Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, Argentina has a huge supply of doses in July, and it will have some in August and September as well.

* This Sunday, a new Aerolineas Argentinas flight arrives with 768,000 doses of Sinopharm.

* At the beginning of the week a cargo plane should arrive from the United States with more than a million doses from Oxford / AstraZeneca, whose active substance is manufactured in Argentina, in the Garín mAbxience laboratory and finished in Albuquerque.

* Also this week, a new flight will come from Russia. The promise is that 600,000 doses 2 will arrive, but the Gamaleya Institute’s vaccine production is undergoing changes, so we’ll have to see what the Aerolineas planes bring.

In any case, in the first four days of July two million doses have already arrived and 15 million will come throughout the month.

Contracts

After the presidential DNU – with a text agreed with the North American laboratories and the government in Washington – progress is underway in the dialogue for the signing of contracts and then the missing authorizations of Anmat. The only approved vaccine is that of Pfizer, part of phase 3 of which was carried out at the military hospital in Buenos Aires under the leadership of Argentinian doctor Federico Pollack. However, the key authorization that Casa Rosada is aiming for is still lacking: the use of Pfizer for minors. The plan is to start vaccinating children only in August or September: the priority is the elderly, where the risks are, but as minors are contagious, it is essential to vaccinate them.

Once the contracts have been signed and with the authorizations of Anmat, there would be, initially, two million doses given by the American government. In the second case, there could be a provision of doses from the Covax program of the World Health Organization and, in a third step, contracts for the purchase of the doses would be signed so that Argentina has in its portfolio almost all vaccines available internationally.

Vaccination

The Nation’s Health Ministry reported that on Friday the vaccination record was broken: 471,000 Argentines underwent vaccinations in a single day. That’s a rate of over one percent of the population, higher on the most intense day of vaccination in the United States.

Buenos Aires’ health ministry, headed by Daniel Gollán and Nicolás Kreplak, issued more than a million citations over the next four days. The calculation is that before the end of the month all residents of Buenos Aires, over the age of 18, who have registered will be vaccinated: 9,600,000. The total adult population of the province of Buenos Aires is 12,500,000, so 77 percent is registered. But every day, around 40,000 people sign up, so by July 31 it will be over 80%. Then you have to go out and convince the rest.

During the week that begins, there are neighborhoods in Buenos Aires in which people over 40 are mentioned mainly, but in other municipalities, citizens aged 30 to 39 and even under. There are 37 districts in which all registrants have already been vaccinated.

The province of Buenos Aires applies second doses, but its strategy is to favor those who have not yet received the first dose, to give them a first protection. The deadlines set on Friday by the Federal Health Commission will be respected, that is to say that when the 21 days of Sinopharm or 60 of AstraZeneca have passed, the citations are made. They don’t anticipate more than that. In any case, there are already many calls to complete the vaccination.

In CABA

At CABA, registrants aged 35 to 39 exceeded 95,000 between Friday and Saturday. This is the vast majority of those who miss this age, since a good part has already been vaccinated as health, safety or education personnel. The District of Buenos Aires is able to immunize approximately 30,000 people per day, so it will take a few days to apply the first dose to all registered people.

The ministry headed by Fernán Quirós, however, is trying to advance the application of the second doses, even if the two months of AstraZeneca are not over. This risks delaying the call for 30-34 year olds, although there is every indication that it will happen this week, Friday 9 or, at the latest, Tuesday 13. The neighborhood of Buenos Aires is also sure to be done. vaccinate. all over 18, registered, before July 31.

There are four provinces that already vaccinate 18 year olds, Chaco, Chubut, Jujuy and Salta. But it’s only a matter of weeks that the whole country will be applying doses to people that age who have signed up. In August, it will be necessary to go out to look for, in the districts and in the houses, the small percentage which remains unvaccinated.