The Ministry of Health has 1.2 million doses of CoronaVac available for immunization of children aged 3 and 4 years. The information is from the deputy executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Marcos Vinicius Dias, interviewee of the program The Voice of Brazil of this fourththursday (20th). According to Dias, if necessary, doses can be reallocated to meet the demands of states with more shortages and new batches can be purchased. “No one will be left without a vaccine,” he assured.
The portfolio representative said that, as was done at the beginning of the pandemic, in which the most vulnerable groups were prioritized, also now, priority will be given to children who have a disease that weakens them and makes them a little more susceptible to an evolution. serious illness.
According to Dias, all vaccines have a potential risk of side effects. “Fortunately, the effects that were recorded with the CoronaVac are mild events”, he maintains, adding that the vaccine was approved by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), which is a state agency, which brings security that it is effective. . “So it’s not worth taking the risk of not vaccinating for fear of an eventual adverse effect,” she said. He cited the case of Chile, where nearly 500,000 children have already been vaccinated.
other vaccines
The deputy executive secretary also spoke about the loss of adherence to vaccination campaigns in the last 10 years, about rabies vaccination and about cases of monkeypox.
