Mandetta Says There Will Not Be One Vaccine For Everyone And Groups Will Need To Be Prioritized In A Delayed Plan Vaccine

“There will be no (vaccine) for everyone, we will spend 2021 struggling with that,” Mandetta said.

The former minister maintains that, given the shortage, it will be necessary to gradually offer the vaccine to priority groups.

We are losing doctors and nurses, at least vaccinate these people who will be able to take care of them. (…) If not for everyone, vaccinate above 80, then between 70 and 80. Vaccinate the capital cities, the large conglomerates. Now get a plan that shows a cut and paste of the flu shot? “, Said.

Mandetta required planning to harness the potential of the vaccine offered by each manufacturer.

“If it is in this improvisation, I imagine that we will go through the first and second semester putting out a fire. A lot of vaccine will arrive here, another there,” he said.

Despite the prospect of vaccination, he cautioned that there is a need to focus on prevention.

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“Prevention more than ever now, because this virus will continue to circulate. Later, if we enter April and May with the virus circulating, which is seasonality, then we will have the second wave.”

In September, during an interview with the program “Conversa com Bial”, the former Minister of Health said that, while in government, he showed President Jair Bolsonaro the possibility that the coronavirus would kill hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil.

According to Mandetta, Bolsonaro’s reaction to the alert was “very negative and very angry.”

“I never spoke in public that he was working with 180,000 dead if we didn’t intervene, but I showed him. I gave it to him in writing, so that he would know responsibility for the paths he was going to take. and very angry, ”Mandetta said.

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