The Miley government’s order hardly assumed it would represent a record

It’s been several months since Coronavirus disease It has ceased to occupy the center of attention of Argentines and this reality is reflected in me Vaccination statistics. Three years after the first doses arrived in the country, despite official indications, today there are very few Argentines who respect… Immunization schedule.

As a result of this “forgetting”, at this moment there are more than 14 million vaccines. The stock has been growing since before the end of the Kirchner government Almost half This magnitude (47.9 percent) was found in Buenos Aires Province. Their expiration date is not reported.

If you look at the overall vaccination monitor, on average 3500 doses per day. At this rate, it will take 4,050 days to be able to use these vaccines, or 11 years. Obviously no vaccine lasts that long. It remains to be seen what the ultimate destination of any surplus will be.

As much as he could know ClarionThe last batch of bivalent vaccines entered the country last spring. This year they entered 4.1 million doses From Pfizer, between January and March. While Moderna delivered 2 million doses, with the final installment in September. The remaining six million are from previous deliveries.

The standard inventory held by the provinces was consolidated upon order of the new administration of Javier Maile, once he took office. According to what was reported to this medium, the Ministry of Health commissioned the companies responsible for logistics services on December 12 to implement New national distributionthat’s since It was held on Thursday in different regions of the country.

The scenario described by the Buenos Aires government in a report published this week on vaccination coverage reflects what happened Marginal place Which Covid has had on the population. This occurs in a context in which cases and deaths resulting from disease A Constant bouncealthough sub-omicron regenerative variants do occur.

At the end of 2023, the number of cases recorded this year was approximately 96,684 and deaths, 485. The contrast with 2022 is enormous: even in times of the pandemic (the World Health Organization announced its end on May 5) there was in the country at the same time of the year 3,874,394 cases And 12,340 deaths.

Ironically, the deaths recorded this year are higher: 0.54 percent versus 0.31 percent of 2022. However, the difference is explained by the fact that thousands of Covid cases have overlapped outside the health system because they were mild and local. Many times, even without medical care.

Returning to the Buenos Aires report, The largest deficit Vaccination takes place in the group of Buenos Aires residents over 50 years of age: “The total number of vaccinated people is 5,135,502. Among them, 96.86 percent “They received the last reinforcement more than 6 months ago,” details the region’s latest epidemiological bulletin. That is, just that Just over 3 percent He received one dose in the last half of the year.

38 percent of the country’s population lives in Buenos Aires Province. It should be remembered that people over 50 years of age, pregnant women and those with weakened immunity who have completed their basic two- or three-dose regimen should receive Booster dose every 6 months.

“In the category of those under 50 years of age, the total number of vaccinated people is 11,320,813, including 93.84 percent “He received his last boost more than a year ago,” the report adds.

It should be taken into account that people under 50 years of age with non-immunosuppressive comorbidities (chronic diseases or obesity), health workers and strategic personnel should receive a booster dose 6 months after the last dose administered. As for the rest of those under 50 years of age, they must receive this One dose per year.

They explained, “When analyzing the time elapsed since receiving the last dose among those under the age of 50, it is noted that the majority of recent applications for the Covid-19 vaccine in this group are concentrated between November 2021 and February 2022.” .

The General Vaccination Observatory reported that it has been distributed so far in the governorates 130,832,992 doses Against Covid, including 116,655,486 executed. That is, there is 1 available4,177,506 dose.

Record of accumulated doses in Argentina whose fate is uncertain If the demand for vaccines by the population continues to decline, this does not escape the reality that other countries have also experienced, even in times of the pandemic. In February 2022, when obtaining doses in underdeveloped countries was still difficult, Europe was already preparing to destroy 55 million expired doses.

The procedure used by some countries to avoid the obstacles of abundance was Donate a dose. Argentina has given that destination just over 5 million doses, with the main batch bequeathed to Bolivia and the rest to Vietnam, the Philippines, Mozambique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Barbados, Kenya and Angola.