the Department of Health could receive the initial delivery of vaccines from the company Johnson & Johnson this Thursday or Friday, depending on when the federal authorities receive the request from the government.
The first shipment, said the director of the Vaccination Program of the agency, Iris Cardona, Up to 28,800 doses of this vaccine, the immunization process does not require a second inoculation, in contrast to vaccines against Covid-19 of Pfizer He Modern.
“If we request them today or tomorrow they would be arriving on Thursday or Friday, and then activities would be scheduled depending on whether they arrive. We already have activities on the agenda with some homeless hostels for next week. We also have on the agenda to complete the vaccination of groups of first responders that were missing within the phase 1-B, And then move on. We continue with the north and interest in advancing in the vaccination of older adults and this presents a new alternative in the sense that you can impact a community, you have vaccinated a large number of people and you do not have to return in three or four weeks “, Cardona outlined, reiterating that it is not yet known what the weekly flow of deliveries of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine will be after receiving the initial shipment.
The infectologist recalled that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, developed by its subsidiary Janssen, Can be stored at refrigerator temperature, which will deliver dose directly to suppliers who do not have ultrarefrigerators such as those needed to store Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, at 80 and 20 degrees Celsius below zero, respectively.
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The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as long as it remains refrigerated, has a shelf life of up to three months, although the intention is to administer it as quickly as possible.
“There are diseases defined by CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) who have higher risks of complications. Of these groups, we have begun to vaccinate some patients, such as those on dialysis, who are among those most at risk of mortality from Covid. Then there are the patients against certain types of cancer, which are defined, and here what we hope is that the patient has the option of seeking the service where he receives his medical care or where he buys his medicines. This would be feasible once we move forward with older people because we already have multiple pharmacies that will be receiving a fixed dose allocation, ”Cardona said, referring to population groups located in the subphase 1-C of the vaccination process.
Subphase 1-B includes non-institutionalized adults over the age of 65, a group estimated to remain to inoculate over 400,000 people.
In the interview with Subway, Cardona noted that the administrative order of the Department of Health that will define the groups eligible to be vaccinated would be issued between today and tomorrow.
Today, precisely, the Administrative Order 480, Which restricted the vaccination process to older adults and school employees since Feb. 2.
The new order “was under evaluation by the secretary (Carlos Mellado). The criteria already exist. If it comes out today or tomorrow I can’t tell you, but I know it’s under the secretary’s assessment. It will include that we can complete the vaccination of certain groups that had paused (i) the exercises aimed at homeless people, even if they are not 65 years old, to do everything in law, “he said. the also former Undersecretary of Health.