Culiacán, Sin.- Omar López Campos, delegate of federal programs in Sinaloaruled out that the almost 600 pediatric vaccines from the pharmacist Pfizer left over from the second day of covid vaccination in minors 5 to 11 years old run the risk of expire.
Given the various questions about the doses that were not applied on the second day of childhood vaccination against the virus, the official stated that these will be kept in the ultra-freezers of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, to later join the third batch that they expect to arrive in entity this Saturday.
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“No, because it turns out that the University lends us this ultra-freezer, so the University does us the great favor of protecting them, they do not have any clinical effects and they would be reserving them to join the third (day). I think it’s 600, 500, something like that“, accurate.
However, in the last case, López Campos warned that, due to the shortage of the pediatric vaccine, the third delivery to Sinaloa could be less than the previous ones, 48,000 doses each.
In Sinaloa, there are around 95,500 children between the ages of 5 and 11 who have received the first pediatric dose of Pfizer against Covid-19.
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There are 165 thousand minors registered on the platform mivacuna.salud.gob.mx to be immunized against the virus, the arrival of more doses by the federation will depend on said registration. Due to the above, from the Delegation of Development Programs in Sinaloa, a call was made to attend to said procedure.
Currently, according to the latest population registry of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), there are 350,000 infants who make up the sector of the population from 5 to 11 years of age in Sinaloa.
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