Coronavirus: the demand for vaccines is growing and there are shortages or long waits

Given the increase in cases of coronavirus throughout the country and the proximity of the Holidays and the summer holidays, many people have turned to the past few days update your vaccination and in some hospitals and health centers in Rosario there were several hours late in attention, while others have run out of doses.

“I arrived at 11 in the morning and have been there for five hours,” a woman in El Tres dal said on a cell phone Carrascowhere he approached because he has a trip scheduled for January, he said.

A man specified that he had gone to take the fourth dose “as a precaution”, but he too had been waiting for some time and added: “For tomorrow They don’t know if they will get the vaccines”.

In this sense, another neighbor reported that she arrived at the hospital on Avellaneda Boulevard after having passed by the hospital earlier in the day. San Martín Polyclinic, where the vaccines ended up. “I arrived at 10:15 and it was still there, but then a person came out to let me know that there were ten vaccines left and I had the number 20. So I took the bus and came here,” he said.

The demand for covid-19 vaccines has skyrocketed in the last weekwhen nationwide cases quadrupled in just seven days and health authorities came out to ask the population not only to resume preventive measures, such as frequent hand washing and use of the chin strap in closed or overcrowded places, but to update their vaccination schedule.

Although the numbers, both of the infections and of the doses applied, are still far from the records – in January 2022 almost 600,000 vaccines were administered per day in the country – the inoculation rate, which has reached a floor of almost 10,000 per day in the October this year started growing since November and had a hit so far in December, with about 100,000 daily.

Four months after the last dose, antibodies to the virus are declining and this is why it is recommended to go to a vaccination center for reinforcement, especially for groups at risk. Likewise, any person over the age of 18 who has passed 120 days since their previous admission – or medical discharge in the event of a covid contract – can update their protection.

In this sense, the provincial Ministry of Health The application of the booster doses began this Monday in the residences for the elderly in Rosario. Last week it had started in other cities in Santa Fe and in total will include 436 nursing homes.