Booster vaccine for older adults will start on Tuesday: López Obrador

The application of booster vaccines against covid 19 will begin next Tuesday, December 7, and the first to receive it will be the elderly, the president reported Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

From Rayón, in the State of Mexico, he pointed out that vaccination is essential to protect that sector of the population that suffers the most from respiratory infections during the cold season.

“It is very likely that we will start with the booster vaccine for older adults as of next Tuesday. All this for the winter, because always, with or without a pandemic, in the winter older people suffer more in the winter,” said the head of the Executive.

He said that the vaccination plan will be defined next Monday at the cabinet meeting that will be held in the National Palace and will be announced on Tuesday at the morning press conference to be held in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

The booster vaccination will begin with the elderly, and will gradually be applied to other sectors of the population.

“We are going to vaccinate, because yes, that is what protects us, that is scientifically proven, so we have to continue vaccinating the laggards, the young and the elderly, booster vaccines.

“All the vaccines, all of them, we are only going to save the Pfizer for young people because it is the one they are recommending and the rest of the vaccines, in general. Starting with older adults,” López Obrador explained.

He reiterated that so far there has not been a rebound in the pandemic in Mexico, however, he pointed out that it should start with the booster vaccination like other countries.

The president called on the media to handle information about the Omicron variant, which, he said, is no more aggressive than previous mutations of the SARS Cov-2 virus.

“They make a report in the WHO that it was a variant, it has a term, of concern, and that was interpreted as a very dangerous variant, and panic spread everywhere and there was a lot of sensationalism.

“People were scared and the economy was also affected, currencies were affected, there was a depreciation of currencies, nervousness in financial markets,” lamented the president.

Existing vaccines are effective against the new variant of the coronavirus, he reiterated.

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