Many people drove to vaccination centers in Florida, where they only proved to be over 65 years old. Photo: AFP
SAN DIEGO.
More than 53,000 people, many of them tourists, managed to get vaccinated against covid-19 in the state of Florida before authorities established as a requirement that those concerned prove to be residents.
With the modification, tourists who were given the first dose of the vaccine lost the chance to receive the second.
The official Florida immunization list noted Friday that 52,385 people out of state and 1,303 from “unknown” county have been vaccinated.
There is no official data on how many are foreigners and how many are Americans.
On January 4, Gov. Ron DeSantis established a criterion that, along with health workers and asylum employees, those over 65 should be vaccinated for free.
From India some travel agencies promoted “exciting vaccine tourism packages” as defined by the Gems Tours and Travel agency.
This same week, Argentine television host Yani Latorre boasted on Instagram that she had brought her mother from Argentina to be vaccinated for free. (Https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwj5f0rBMb/)
By then the word had spread that also Mexican, Colombian, Argentine and Brazilian tourists, among other nationalities, flew to Miami, stayed, washed vehicles and simply came to train to receive the first dose of the vaccine. .
Complaints from Florida residents increased as tourists purchased thousands of vaccines.
Finally, the government decided on Wednesday that those who applied for vaccines and were over 65 must be residents.
The new rule prevents those who have been vaccinated as tourists since January 7 from missing the chance to have the second dose, necessary for the vaccine to have an effect against the SARS-Cov-2 caused by covid-19.
One of these tourists is the Mexican driver Juan José Orijel.
REGULATES VULNERABILITY
The order in which covid-19 vaccines are supplied in the United States obeys a hierarchy of vulnerability and ethical principles.
The first vaccines to be applied this month are for the health sector, especially for those directly fighting the pandemic, and for employees and nursing home residents.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) establishes phases and these two groups make up the 1st.
The following (1b) is “for front-line essential workers”, including firefighters, police, agricultural and food workers, postal service, manufacturing, supermarket and public transport workers, as well as of over 75 years.
1c is for people between 65 and 74 years of age, and between 16 and 64 years old who suffer from comorbidities.
The ethical principles he established are to maximize benefits and minimize harm, mitigate health inequality, and promote justice, as well as transparency.
-Manuel Ocaño
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