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In a new attack on the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said today, during his weekly live, that the vaccine against covid-19, when approved, will be free and voluntary, that is to say. , you will only take who you want.
“If certified by Anvisa, the federal government will buy this material and make it available to the population free of charge and voluntarily,” Bolsonaro declared. “I’m telling you, I won’t accept it, it’s my right.”
To justify his position, Bolsonaro was wrong to say that “whoever does not receive the vaccine hurts himself” and not others, since any vaccine needs minimal coverage to be effective. A study published in August indicates that if an immunizer against the coronavirus is 80% effective, it must be applied to at least 75% of the population to end the pandemic.
If this minimum compliance is not achieved, the virus continues to circulate, infecting people, leaving sequelae and, in some cases, causing death. Measles, for example, had been eradicated in the Americas in 2016, according to the WHO (World Health Organization), but it became a cause for concern again in 2018, after two outbreaks of the disease in Brazil.
Also, not everyone can get vaccinated. People with HIV, cancer or chemotherapy patients, and pregnant women, for example, are in this group, and are even more vulnerable to disease, in general. In other words: the vaccine not only protects those who take it, but also those who are contraindicated.
“Dictator”
Bolsonaro also defined the person who defends compulsory vaccination as a “dictator” who “wants to do business with the lives of others,” in a new reference to Doria. “The issue is serious, we have to be responsible for that, and I don’t want to say that I am going to force them to do this and that,” added the president.
It is not up to Bolsonaro to define whether a vaccine will be mandatory or not, but to the Ministry of Health, according to the Constitution. In the context of the pandemic, the speech continues to be contrary to a law approved by the president himself, in February of this year, which determines which authorities can make the covid-19 vaccine mandatory:
“To face the public health emergency of international importance due to the coronavirus, the following measures may be adopted, among others:
I – isolation;
II – quarantine;
III – determination of the mandatory performance of:
a) medical examinations;
b) laboratory tests;
c) collection of clinical samples;
re) vaccination and other prophylactic measures; or
e) specific medical treatments “.
There is also the ECA (Statute of the Child and Adolescent), which provides for the vaccination of young people up to 18 years of age when recommended by the health authorities. Non-compliance, according to the rule, can result in the collection of a fine of three to 20 minimum wages to those responsible.
