Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said today (Jan. 13) that the country’s immunization campaign against COVID-19 will be monitored in a bid to identify any adverse response to the vaccine. However, he added, the Pfizer shot has been administered in millions of children in other countries with no problems.
A total of 1. 24 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for young people arrived at São Paulo’s Viracopos airport from the U. S. laboratory Pfizer. The shipment is the first of three deliveries expected to arrive in the country this month. By the end of March, the government expects to get 20 million vaccines.
The Pfizer vaccine legalized its use in children aged five to 11 in December through the country’s national drug regulator, Anvisa. The government included this age-old organization in last week’s campaign.
Queiroga mentioned that, though new, these shots have been administered in hospitals across the world. “The administration of this shot started in November, chiefly in the US. Over 8 million doses have been administered in the US, in children aged five to 11, with no major adverse effects. […] Its safety has been attested not just by Anvisa but also other regulators,” he declared, after receiving the first batch of COVID-19 shots for children at the ministry’s distribution center in the city of Guarulhos, São Paulo.
The inoculation helps shield the country from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as well as others that may emerge in the future, he went on to say. “Strongly vaccinated countries, like Brazil, have higher chances of overcoming Omicron and other potential variants with a high capacity to generate mutations,” he stated.
The Minister also spoke about the role of vaccination in preventing hospitalizations and severe cases of the disease. “Most of the people admitted to hospitals and intensive care facilities are other people who have not received the vaccine,” he said. In six months we have noticed a significant drop in the number of deaths, thanks to public policies and the vaccination campaign,” he added.
As a result, the minister urged people who have not taken the second or booster shot to go to vaccination stations. “This advice must really be underscored,” he pointed out.
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