Why I am not planning on taking the vaccine any time soon, if ever

[Redpossum]

They want to rake in the money. Fauci is helping them every step of the way.

Once again, jantango, you hit the nail right on the head!

 

[Pensador]

What is the plan in Argentina anyway? I hear they are not planning on vaccinating everyone any way because they do not even have a pot to piss in financially speaking. Seems like a lost country at this point URU planning to have everyone vaccinated they are one of only 4 countries in the Americas shooting for and working on every all vaccinated. I believe that cannot be said of Argentina.

 

[Redpossum]

What is the plan in Argentina anyway? I hear they are not planning on vaccinating everyone any way because they do not even have a pot to piss in financially speaking. Seems like a lost country at this point URU planning to have everyone vaccinated they are one of only 4 countries in the Americas shooting for and working on every all vaccinated. I believe that cannot be said of Argentina.

Pensador, with all due respect for both you and our neighbours across the river, Uruguay has a 2019 population estimate of 3.5 million, versus 45 million for Argentina.

I have not heard that Argentina plans on leaving anyone who wants the vaccine without it. At present they are bringing in weekly planeloads of the Sputnuk V vaccine from Russia, and an Argentine lab is gearing up to begin production of the same vaccine here very soon.

 

[FrankPintor]

What is the plan in Argentina anyway? I hear they are not planning on vaccinating everyone any way because they do not even have a pot to piss in financially speaking. Seems like a lost country at this point URU planning to have everyone vaccinated they are one of only 4 countries in the Americas shooting for and working on every all vaccinated. I believe that cannot be said of Argentina.

The plan is on this page:

Monitor Público de Vacunación

Consultá en el tablero en tiempo real las vacunas contra el COVID-19 que se aplicaron por provincia y en el país.

www.argentina.gob.ar

You might consider it to be optimistic and unreal, but there is a plan, and it does include everyone. Like other countries who planned in advance for this, around the middle of last year Argentina had to make a bet on which vaccine would pass trials and be available to use. Argentina made a big bet on the Oxford / Astra-Zeneca vaccine, buying 22 million doses, and Argentinian company, mAbxience, has actually produced 24 million doses and plans to produce between 150 and 250 million this year. Unfortunately the plan ran into problems at the Mexico end of the joint venture, which is why Argentina is scrambling to get vaccines to make up the shortfall in the meantime.

There's an update about the mAbxience vaccines and more here:

https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/cor...asan-ee-uu-cumplir-argentina_0_dNYvT-QXw.html

it seems that the first doses will be delivered in April. I also read that there's a plan to produce Sputnik V in Argentina, but that will obviously take some time. Bear in mind that there are not many countries in LatAm with the capability to produce vaccines. Argentina's capability could be very useful later on if vaccine hoarding by countries increases.

Uruguay is very late starting its vaccination program, and they're seeing a major spike in infection now. Chile isn't seeing any impact on infections from its vaccination program, the hospital system has collapsed in some regions already. Brazil has a loony president and a collapsed health system. By comparison, Argentina is not doing badly at this point.

 

[Johnny]

 

[Redpossum]

Se acelera la llegada de vacunas contra el coronavirus | Entre hoy y el domingo se sumarán casi 600.000 dosis

Esta tarde aterriza en Ezeiza el avión de Aerolíneas Argentinas con otras 370.000 Sputnik V y el domingo uno de KLM con 218.400 AstraZeneca del programa Covax. Para la semana próxima se espera el arribo de 1.000.000 de Sinopharm. Así se podrá avanzar f...

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Translation of the sub-headline
This afternoon the Aerolineas Argentinas plane with another 370,000 Sputnik V lands in Ezeiza and on Sunday one from KLM with 218,400 AstraZeneca from the Covax program. The arrival of 1,000,000 from Sinopharm is expected next week. In this way, strong progress can be made in the vaccination campaign.

Granted, 1.58 million doses isn't huge progress in a nation of 45 million people, but neither is it insignificant.

Of course, my view of the F&F government is generally positive, and we all view things through the lens of our own worldview. Which is why we have "El Obelisko lleno de pelotudos dos veces por semana", to quote Guille Aquino.

Bear in mind that there are not many countries in LatAm with the capability to produce vaccines. Argentina's capability could be very useful later on if vaccine hoarding by countries increases.

This is very true! And I'm proud to say that one of my Brazilian students recently landed a job at Butantan Institute, which is producing vaccine in Brazil. No thanks to Bolsos the clown.

As a teacher, it feels very good to see one's students doing well

 

[Redpossum]

Brasil anunció la creación de su primera vacuna propia: Butanvac | Comenzará a testearla en humanos

En medio del colapso sanitario por la segunda ola de la pandemia y las nuevas variantes de coronavirus, Brasil anunció este viernes la creación de una vacuna propia, la Butanvac, desarrollada por el Instituto estatal Butantán de San Pablo. Las autorida...

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This is the vaccine from Butantán that I was referring to in the previous post. Apologies for two posts in a row, but it's too late to edit the above

 

[Ruth Graves]

Just vaccinated, and happy about it. It's a personal decision.

Did you sign up using the link https://vacunate.ms.gba.gov.ar/#request? How did you get your vaccine?

 

[gracielle]

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-16/death-from-blood-clot-in-australia-linked-to-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine

Big Chile study finds Chinese vaccine slashes COVID deaths

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A real-world study of millions of Chileans who had received the Chinese-developed CoronaVac vaccine has found it 67% effective against symptoms and 80% against death from COVID-19, the South American country's Health Ministry said Friday.

apnews.com

 

[FrankPintor]

I'd wait and see how this works out. There must have been immense pressure to produce a favourable result in Chile . I have "skin in the game", unlike most people here I guess, my son was vaccinated with Sinovac there today.