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Vytautas Kasiulevičius, a professor at the Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, wrote on Facebook on Thursday that the election is a very unfavorable time to make decisions about the purchase of a COVID-19 vaccine. Such decisions are said to overshadow everyone who makes them, but a consensus and the most transparent solution need to be found.
It is necessary to allow vaccination.
V. Kasiulevičius wrote on his Facebook account: “Although I have sworn many times not to write about COVID-19, these days our state officials cannot make a decision about the purchase of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Elections are a very unfavorable moment for such decisions, such decisions overshadow all those who make them, but it is necessary to find consensus and leave the solution more transparent.
If we don’t, all the measures we take will lose their meaning, because the goal of all our efforts to stop the virus was to get the vaccine.
Astra Zeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, or even a Chinese vaccine. That’s not the point. Ideal to find the safest. It is essential that our citizens can be vaccinated. On August 27, an excellent review was published that looks at infection-related mortality and summarizes a large amount of data. The conclusions are very simple and clear.
If you are under 45, your risk of dying from COVID-19 will not be much different than from seasonal flu (flu-related mortality ranges from 0.025 to 0.04 percent).
But we are talking about people who are over 45 years old. The risk of these people dying from Covid-19 increases quite quickly. These are the parents and grandparents of many. Many people on social media and in the comments say that these people have chronic diseases and that one day they will still die. This attitude is taking hold more and more in our society. As if the cancer had stopped, it would no longer need to be treated surgically, with radiation therapy, with chemotherapy. And in case of kidney failure, stop dialysis or even don’t plan a kidney transplant. When diagnosing coronary artery disease, do not place a stent or shunt because it is expensive. And finally, go back to the 19th century, when medicine had aspirin and nitroglycerin. As a doctor, it is not acceptable for you to accept as much dirt and threats as you would. Since that approach rejects progress, it erases all of humanity’s achievements in the dumps and gives way to populism of dubious value.
I want you to remember Italy in March, where I asked everyone not to fly from February, and look at the second photo. Presents projected and actual infection-related mortality across countries. Where on the table is Lithuania and why? Because the oldest populations are concentrated nearby. In March, although it was difficult to convince the authorities, we were fortunate to prevent Lithuania from becoming Italy. Why do we not now have the strength and the will to complete the work we have begun to acquire the necessary instrument of protection for our citizens?
I urge the president, the prime minister and the minister to find out who is responsible and make all necessary decisions about the safety of our citizens’ risk groups. “
The reputation of vaccine developers has been called into question.
The government decided to ask the VGT for decisions on the joint procurement of Lithuanian and European Union vaccines against coronavirus infection when there were doubts about the risks involved, as well as the reputation of the vaccine developers.
Vaccine for COVID-19
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis emphasized that the information provided by the special services about the vaccine manufacturer, AstraZeneca, from which the product is to be purchased, is contradictory: allegations of possible bribery of the company, as well as distributed drugs that were not effective. , false prices and incorrect information provided.
On Wednesday after the government meeting, Saulius Skvernelis said that the issue of buying vaccines is strategic.
“I am one of the members of the State Defense Council (VGT), I have the right to convene (a meeting, – aut. Past.), But I received no response. I don’t want the question to go unanswered, there was a formal appeal, there must be a formal answer. It is unfortunate that in doing so, the presidential adviser could not even read the material provided. In other words, the president of the country did not receive the information either. And the issue is strategic, “the prime minister said Wednesday.
The head of government said that the VGT is considering other issues that are not necessarily related to the defense of the State.
“I hope that this question will be posed to the VGT. Because it is the Government, the Presidency and the Seimas. And that strategic decision, although of an advisory nature. The responsible authorities will still have to implement those decisions. But this is an important issue for everyone. our country is not just a health crisis, we do not want us to be left without a vaccine, ”said the Prime Minister.
“If we do not consider this issue, we will do so at the next level, but we will only regret that attempts are being made to exclude VGT from such strategic decisions,” said S. Skvernelis.
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