Coronavirus has spread to all corners of the world, and although its side effects vary from country to country, the collective hope is focused on one problem: vaccines.
However, the inoculation to be received will depend on the nation in which the person resides, as well as the requirements for its administration.
Despite this and the doubts generated by the accelerator In the process of manufacturing vaccines, pharmaceutical companies continued, presenting their respective variants of the immunizer.
At least 36 million people in the world have already been vaccinated against coronavirus, with the United States, China and the United Kingdom administering the most vaccinations to their citizens.
First the American government announced that they will give priority to health workers and nursing home residents.
In addition, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that those to be vaccinated be “essential front-line workers,” such as firefighters and police officers.
The CDC also suggested continuing with those over 75 who are not in care centers; people between 65 and 74 years old; those with comorbid factors against the virus, aged between 16 and 64, and other key workers, such as people working in transport and food services.
For this they used the vaccines developed by Moderna and the one from Pfizer-BionTech, which is the only one that has the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO), both approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. (FDA) in mid-December last year.
China
The Asian giant inoculated its population with three vaccines developed on its territory, Sinovac, Sinopharm and CanSino.
China, like the United States, has planned to inoculate certain parts of its citizens, first vaccinating its medical staff and police officers.
Similarly, there are officials, firefighters, funerals, transporters, health care staff, customs and border control officers, as well as people who have to travel abroad for study or work.
They would be the first to benefit from the massive vaccination campaign they have announced, which aims to inoculate about 50 million citizens before the Chinese New Year, according to the Hong Kong South China Morning Post, which begins on 12 February.
UK
The UK unveiled its vaccination plan during the week, aiming to vaccinate 15 million people by February this year, using Pfizer-BionTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca products, all approved by the British National Health Service (NHS) in English).
The UK government attaches importance to the elderly living in nursing homes, along with the people caring for them.
This group also includes health professionals and social workers, in addition to citizens over 70 years.
From the end of February, they will do the same with those over the age of 50 and those with comorbid factors against COVID-19 and fall in the age range between 16 and 64 years.
In the same way, they said that people will receive vaccines in local doctors’ offices and in community pharmacies, hospitals and mass vaccination sites in all the countries that make up the United Kingdom.
According to the BBC, there are about 1,000 general medicine centers in England, 200 community pharmacies, 206 hospitals and seven mass vaccination centers.
Problems
However, problems with inoculation processes were not long in coming, which was to be expected due to the demand for vaccines.
According to AP reports, the expansion of this process in the United States has caused long blockages and failures in computer systems.
An example of this occurred in Mississippi, where the local health department stopped accepting appointments the same day it began, due to a “monumental increase” in demand, causing people to wait for hours just to make ends meet. do the scheduling. to be vaccinated.
Those who succeeded were qualified as lucky, as many were removed from the site due to technical problems and had to resume the process.
Something similar happened in the state of Georgia, where the telephone lines collapsed from the volume of incoming calls.
There is also the peculiarity that in the USA they are autonomous to a certain extent, so the orientation for vaccinating the elderly is flexible, because each locality chooses from what age it will be a “priority person”, ranging between 65, 70 or several years.
Last Thursday, New Jersey expanded its vaccination program to include people between the ages of 16 and 65 with certain medical conditions, including 2 million smokers, who are more likely to have health complications, which is not the case. it happens in every state.
Another disadvantage was that one of the most prominent vaccines, that of Pfizer-BionTech, had problems in producing its own, to the point where the developers had to temporarily reduce the transport they had agreed with Canada.
Canadian Public Services Minister Anita Anand shared the news, explaining last Friday that expanding Pfizer vaccine production to its European customers reduces shipments to all countries that receive the vaccine produced at the European Facility.