Small town achieved herd immunity with 75% of population vaccinated – Telam

The coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac, from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, the most applied in Brazil, has achieved reduce by 95% The dead and generated the collective immunity with 75% of the vaccinated population in Mountain, a city of 45,000 inhabitants in the state of São Paulo, based on an epidemiological trial.

At 341 kilometers from San Pablo, Serrana has become the pandemic oasis because it was chosen as the mass test center for CoronaVac.

“We have carried out a unique large-scale epidemiological laboratory to demonstrate how the efficacy of the vaccine can save lives and control the pandemic,” said Dimas Covas, president of the Brazilian laboratory Instituto Butantan.

The institute has developed the “Projects», For which from February to March 95% of those over 18 are vaccinated (27,000 inhabitants) with two doses of CoronaVac, separated by 21 days.

The experience achieves expected collective immunity with vaccination and immunity has even reached children, adolescents and other unvaccinated.

That is, when 75% of the vaccination was completed, the entire population of Serrana was immunized.

In the midst of the second wave of coronavirus in February, March and April, Serrana showed that he, tooThe vaccine was resistant to the Manaus P1 variant.

According to Covas and São Paulo Governor Joao Doria, deaths have been reduced by 95%, hospitalizations by 86% and asymptomatic cases by 80%.

“The results emphatically show what could happen across Brazil without the vaccination delay. They also show that there is only one way to control the pandemic: the vaccine, the vaccine and the vaccine for all Brazilians ”, assured Doria, during the press conference of socialization of Project S.

The clinical study is considered a pioneer worldwide for determining the herd immunity of the vaccine. One of the key points is the protection generated in children by adult vaccination.

Deaths were reduced by 95%, hospitalizations by 86% and asymptomatic cases by 80%.“

“This created a cut in the circulation of the virus and enabled an immunological belt,” Covas said during the presentation, seen as a “triumph” of Brazilian science.

Known only as a dormitory and a sugar-producing town next to the big town Ribeirao Preto, Serrana relied on the collaboration of religious leaders, traders and teachers to convince people that the vaccine was a solution.

“The vaccine is safe, potent, potent, of the highest quality, and helps prevent the disease from advancing,” Covas said.

Colombian Ricardo Palacios, director of clinical research at the Butantan Institute, stressed that the experience in Serrana “demonstrates the importance of collective solutions such as vaccination”.

Brazil released the largest real-time vaccine population study when The country is on the brink of a third wave of coronavirus, with more than 20 capitals with 80% of hospital occupation by Covid-19.

In this context, we knew on Monday that the President’s Government Jair Bolsonaro, a political enemy of Governor Doria and who, in October of last year I despised the CoronaVac for its Chinese origin, has offered to host the 2021 Copa America which kicks off on June 10.

Doria said San Pablo was available as a venue in case health rules for footballers were followed and matches went without an audience.

Congressman Alexandre Padilha, former health minister of Dilma Rousseff, sent an official letter to Doria rejecting the Copa America venue on the grounds that São Paulo is the state most affected by the pandemic, with 81% occupation of hospitals.

Ro Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul and Pernambuco have already refused to host matches.