Covid Vaccination Argentina

[Aztangogirl]

So because of a badly planned vaccine rollout, I got Sputnik and Moderna. I might not be able to travel out of Argentina?

 

[gracielle]

So because of a badly planned vaccine rollout, I got Sputnik and Moderna. I might not be able to travel out of Argentina?

The current scenario for travel to the US....state by state:

Destinations | Travelers' Health | CDC

Travel recommendations for fully vaccinated and not fully vaccinated travelers:

COVID-19 and Travel

CDC travel recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

wwwnc.cdc.gov

Europe....posted on this thread by jlynch on Aug 14:

EMA and ECDC update on COVID-19 | European Medicines Agency (EMA)

www.ema.europa.eu

 

[Alby]

This article has helpfully appeared and seems to provide an answer to the question I posed:

Vaccine protection seems likely to wane, but are boosters unethical?

COVID-19 vaccines cause our immune system to produce a surge of new antibodies. Over time, those levels drop, and we become vulnerable to reinfection. But the World Health Organisation has called for a moratorium on boosters.

www.smh.com.au

Among other matters, it describes a not-yet-peer-reviewed study that points to the drop in immunity (and refers to the falls that seem to now be being registered in Israel among those first vaccinated in January--presumably older people), but concludes:
“Our modelling in this paper would suggest protection against severe infection and hospitalisation will hold up better over time,” said the University of Sydney’s Professor James Triccas, a co-author on the paper.

Early data from seven US states hint at infections among the vaccinated

Although in small numbers, breakthrough infections accounted for at least one in 5 newly diagnosed cases in six of these states and higher hospitalisation and death rates.

www.smh.com.au

This article, sourced from the New York Times, also says that breakthrough cases are higher than the trial results led us to believe they would be:

“Remember when the early vaccine studies came out, it was like nobody gets hospitalised, nobody dies,” said Dr Robert Wachter, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “That clearly is not true.”

It goes on to say that "[M]ost analyses of breakthrough infections have included figures collected through the end of June. Based on the cumulative figures, the CDC and public health experts had concluded that breakthrough infections were extremely rare, and that vaccinated people were highly unlikely to become severely ill."

It is poorly written. I'd like to think it means to say that vaccinated people who become breakthrough cases are unlikely to become severely ill. Maybe that's what it means, but that's not what it says.

Again, we have to make of it what we will.

 

[gracielle]

18 August 2021

U.S. to begin offering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in September

The U.S. government said on Wednesday it plans to make COVID-19 vaccine booster shots widely available starting on Sept. 20 as infections rise from the coronavirus Delta variant, citing data indicating diminishing protection from the vaccines over time.

www.reuters.com

 

[gracielle]

18 August 2021 at 4:14pm by Jose Maria Costa

Variante delta: ya son cinco los casos sin nexo epidemiológico y la ciudad analiza otros cinco más

En la Argentina han sido identificados 130 casos de la variante india, de los cuales 125 corresponden a casos importados o relacionados con la importación: 100 a viajeros internacionales y 25 a personas relacionadas con dichos viajeros

www.lanacion.com.ar

Delta variant: there are already five cases with no epidemiological link and the City analyzes another five more. In Argentina, 130 cases of this variant have been identified, of which 125 correspond to imported or import-related cases: 100 to international travelers and 25 to people related to said travelers.
Five cases of people residing in the City of BA were identified with the Delta variant without being able to establish an epidemiological link with any traveler, a report released by the Ministry of Health indicated today. In addition, from the CABA Ministry of Health they indicated to LA NACION that they are analyzing five other cases of possible infections with the variant identified for the first time in India....This was indicated in the document that the portfolio led by Carla Vizzotti uploaded to its website today. According to this technical report on the surveillance of the new variants, of these five cases “four of them are not related to each other, they do not have a travel history, nor has it been possible to establish a link with an international traveler and one corresponds to a case associated with one of them and that was identified as a product of the epidemiological investigation ”....In relation to the sequencing of non-travelers (which were about 3189 samples), the report indicated that for the entire country it is observed that 58.11% corresponds to the Gamma variant (Manaus), 20.32% to Lambda (known as Andean, it is a variant defined as of interest by the WHO), 11.26% to variants that are not of concern or interest, and 8.53% to Alpha (UK).

 

[Brian_is_here]

If gamma + lambda variant (the variants common in argentina) is nearly as contagious as delta, it will be very slow for delta to make progress in Argentina.

Again, vaccines prevent hospitalization.

 

[gracielle]

18 August 2021

Llegaron al país 381 mil dosis de AstraZeneca y más de 900 mil de Sinopharm

En las próximas horas aterrizará un nuevo vuelo con otros 716.800 inoculantes de origen chino

www.infobae.com

On Wednesday night 381,000 doses of AstraZeneca arrived on AeroMexico which will be used to complete inoculation schedules. This Thursday morning a Lufthansa flight is scheduled to arrive with 716,800 doses of Sinopharm. The last shipment of inoculants from the same laboratory will be arriving late Saturday afternoon: another 768,000 vaccines....
....The Ministry of Health of the Nation pointed to August as the month of the second doses. The government's plan is to reach 7 million applications of second doses before the end of the month: so far they have passed the 4 million mark....The latest report from the Public Vaccination Monitor indicated that as of Wednesday 42,792,314 doses were distributed throughout the country, of which 37,689,167 were applied. There are 26,902,913 persons who where inoculated with the first dose and 10,768,254 who completed the scheme with both doses....The report also confirmed 247 deaths and 9,764 infections. With these numbers, the country registers a total of 5,106,207 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, while the deaths are 109,652. Meanwhile, the positivity rate for the last day was 9.42%, below the 10% recommended by the WHO.

 

[Alby]

Early data from seven US states hint at infections among the vaccinated

Although in small numbers, breakthrough infections accounted for at least one in 5 newly diagnosed cases in six of these states and higher hospitalisation and death rates.

www.smh.com.au

This article, sourced from the New York Times, also says that breakthrough cases are higher than the trial results led us to believe they would be:

“Remember when the early vaccine studies came out, it was like nobody gets hospitalised, nobody dies,” said Dr Robert Wachter, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “That clearly is not true.”

It goes on to say that "[M]ost analyses of breakthrough infections have included figures collected through the end of June. Based on the cumulative figures, the CDC and public health experts had concluded that breakthrough infections were extremely rare, and that vaccinated people were highly unlikely to become severely ill."

It is poorly written. I'd like to think it means to say that vaccinated people who become breakthrough cases are unlikely to become severely ill. Maybe that's what it means, but that's not what it says.

Again, we have to make of it what we will.

John Campbell reports here in the first four minutes a CDC report released yesterday showing that the vaccines in the US have indeed declined a little in their effectiveness against infection, but that they remain as effective against hospitalization as before:

 

[lunar]

On Wednesday night 381,000 doses of AstraZeneca arrived on AeroMexico which will be used to complete inoculation schedules.

I got an invitation for a second AstraZeneca shot from the "Emergency 107" whatsapp bot.

 

[MilHojas]

Quiros: Delta variant 'very close' to community transmission

Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós warned Tuesday that the Delta variant of Covid-19 "is very close" to entering into community transmission.

www.batimes.com.ar