The study will include the city of Serra in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, the research institute said.
“The entire adult population, estimated at 1,000,000, will be vaccinated in three months in an unprecedented procedure,” the Button Institute wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
The idea of vaccinating as many people as possible will allow researchers to “follow the evolution of the epidemic. There are technical aspects that will make it possible to make calculations, make estimates and calculate whether the vaccine is capable of reducing virus transmission,” said Dimas Tadeau Kovas, director of the institute.
The city of Serra, with a population of about 45,000, is divided into four color-coded regions. According to the Butane Institute, all people over the age of 18 will be vaccinated with the coronavirus, with the exception of pregnant or breastfeeding women and those with serious illnesses.
“Based on what we’re going to learn here, we’re going to let the rest of the world know what the real impact of the vaccine against Covid-19 is,” said Ricardo Pala Liaos, director of clinical studies in Britain. “
There are glimmers of hope, said Dr. Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization, on Wednesday. “After weeks of escalation of covid cases and deaths, we are starting to see improvement trends in some of the more severely affected countries, including the US and Brazil,” he said during a weekly brief online briefing.
He warned, however, that those tendencies “are a cause for hope, but not for celebration.”
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