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Two prestigious US media have criticized in recent hours the government’s management since the start of vaccination against the coronavirus, pointing out that the authorities created a “False sense of security”.
This is how he raised it The New York Times in a report published Tuesday. In it, they point out that the vaccination campaign “gave Chileans a false sense of security and contributed to a sharp increase in new infections and deaths that is overloading the health system ”.
In addition, he criticized that the authorities “eased restrictions on travel, businesses and schools too soon, creating a feeling of confidence that the pandemic was over“.
The Washington Post, meanwhile, published a column titled The success of the Chilean government overshadows a vaccination campaign that could have been exemplary.
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This Wednesday, Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, He responded to both publications assuring that the news “is not true.”
“Today, curiously the Washington Post and the New York Times, they both agree, it seems, to convey this news. This news is not true. We, if we had not vaccinated, what would they have told us?
Paris questioned: “if we hadn’t had a vaccine, they would have criticized us 100 times more. We have the right to show what we do, we have the right to be proud of the work our health officials do, to be proud of what the ISP does, of what companies like Perilogistics do, with all their strategy to store and distribute vaccines, why don’t we go to them tell?”.
“If that caused a false sense of security, that’s the thing to check, but Do you want us to say nothing of what we do? You want us to not advertise anything good? We have to give Chileans a light of hope and the vaccine is a light of hope, but we have said ad nauseam that this will be achieved on June 30. Meanwhile, we cannot see this amount of people and cars circulating in the city, in a city that is in quarantine ”, he added, referring to the high flow of cars in the Metropolitan Region.
Finally, the minister recalled that “the vaccine takes a long time to act, only 14 days after the second dose is there a sufficient immune response. The vaccine is not effective in preventing transmission, what the vaccine does is reduce the number of seriously ill patients, and we are already seeing that. Those over 70 years of age have a huge drop in their admission to the intensive care unit and that is very good, because we are avoiding deaths with the vaccine, but the virus has not stopped circulating ”.
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