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The STF (Supreme Federal Court) asked Fiocruz to reserve vaccines to immunize 7,000 officials of the court and the CNJ (National Council of Justice). The measure, according to the court, is “a way to contribute to the country at this critical moment in our history.”
The court sent a letter asking if the research institution can guarantee the required dose amount in advance.
“Considering that it is a new product and not yet authorized by Anvisa, I would like to check the possibility of reserving doses of the vaccine against the new coronavirus to cover the demand of 7,000 (seven thousand) people,” says the document.
The STJ (Superior Court of Justice) made a similar request to Fiocruz. The information was revealed by Veja Magazine, and confirmed by leaf. In answering questions on the matter, the STJ reported that the STF had acted in the same way.
“The intention to purchase vaccines has been expressed by various public bodies that carry out immunization campaigns among their employees, such as the STF, which sent a similar letter to Fiocruz,” the STJ notice said.
In the STF, the letter was signed by the director general of the court, Edmundo Veras, and affirms that the vaccine reserve has two purposes. The first is to immunize CNJ and Supremo workers.
The second, according to the court, is due to the fact that the vaccination of public servants will represent “a way of contributing to the country at such a critical moment in our history, since it will help accelerate the process of immunization of the population and allow the destination of public health teams for other people ”.
The document also says that the internal vaccination campaign will be carried out by the court’s health sector and that the agency is willing to send “a server to collect vaccines at the Fiocruz facilities.”
In the report, the STF advisor said that, since it is a product that is pending approval by the competent bodies, there is still no cost estimate for the measure.
“There are also other supply options, and the final decision will consider the total cost, which may even be non-existent, as has already happened in the case of previous vaccination campaigns,” he says.
The court also denied that the letter represents an attempt to anticipate the immunization of judicial officials and ministers in relation to the rest of the population.
The STF says it intends to obtain sufficient doses for immunization of 7,000 “without any intention of obtaining priority in immunization relative to the rest of the population.”
The court indicates that the request “refers only to the reservation of doses for the evolution of the negotiation after the approval of the vaccine and the definition of the prioritization criteria by the competent bodies, facts that have not yet occurred and that directly influence the release dynamics by the partner provider. “
The court also says that there is no deadline for obtaining the vaccines, “since it is necessary to wait for the approval of the vaccine by the competent bodies and the definition of the criteria for prioritizing the population groups that will receive the vaccine. vaccine first, in addition to not knowing the size of the vaccine. queue of previous orders ”of the STF.
The STJ, for its part, assures that it is simply “a commercial protocol that is intended to be agreed with the producing laboratory, common for the acquisition of vaccines annually, without any type of preference by the court.”
