Top 10 false information that Romanians believe about the vaccine:
1. “Pharmaceutical companies hide the dangers associated with vaccines”
Candidate vaccines against COVID-19, in the portfolio of several pharmaceutical companies, are in various stages of testing in clinical trials around the world and under the supervision of a large number of authority regulatory. The whole process it is designed so that there is no possibility that the dangers will not be discovered in time. No vaccine will be administered without the approval of the competent authorities in the field. In the European Union, vaccination will be performed only with vaccines authorized by the European Medicines Agency, following a complex process of analysis and evaluation, according to the regulations and legislation in force.
2. “Vaccine safety data is often fabricated”
The raw, individual data, and not the final reports of the companies, are those that are evaluated by the regulators. In addition, in pharmacovigilance studies, vaccination is monitored by national authorities to ensure the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
3. “An unauthorized vaccine will be used in Romania”
Romania, as an EU member state, cannot allow the use of a vaccine that has not received a marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency or from ANMDMR (National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices in Romania). In addition, the national legislation (Law 95/2006) does not allow the import of medical products without holding a marketing authorization.
4. “Vaccination will be mandatory”
Vaccination against COVID-19 is voluntary / optional. Vaccine coverage is desired as much as possible to limit the epidemic spread of the virus, but no introduction of compulsory vaccination or restrictive measures against unvaccinated individuals is envisaged.
5. “Romanian citizens will be the last to be vaccinated”
According to the European Union strategy for accelerating the development, manufacture and distribution of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19, to which Romania has acceded, once a vaccine receives the approval of the European Medicines Authority, it will be available simultaneously in all states. EU member.
6. “Romania pays more money for vaccination against COVID-19 than other European countries”
According to the European Union’s strategy to accelerate the development, manufacture and distribution of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 once a vaccine is approved by the European Medicines Agency, it will be available at the same price in all EU Member States.
7. “Vaccination will be done on files”
Vaccination will be done in strict compliance with the priority categories mentioned in the Vaccination Strategy against COVID-19. As Romania aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality generated by SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, maintain the health care capacity of the public health system and limit the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on society and the economy, vaccination will be done. strictly according to the established stages and criteria.
8. “Vaccination will be done with army and the police “
The administration of the vaccine will always be performed by medical staff with specific training for this purpose. MAPN and MAI, through partnership with the Ministry of Health, will provide a large part of the logistical resources needed to carry out a vaccination campaign of such magnitude, and the vaccine will be administered only by qualified personnel according to national legislation.
9. “Politicians get vaccinated in front of citizens”
According to the Strategy for vaccination against COVID-19 in Romania, the vaccination will be carried out in three stages and will respect the population groups established according to the following criteria:
– principles of ethics and social equity;
– epidemiological criteria to allow flexibility in the allocation of the vaccine at regional and local level – depending on the evolution of the infection in the territory, eg: rapid, exponential increase in the number of cases above a certain threshold value (definition of an incidence threshold) at a regions will allow, depending on the characteristics of the population, the priority distribution of vaccines at the level of the respective population in order to limit the spread of the virus;
– medical criteria – the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection at individual and collective level:
– risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection;
– the risk of severe evolution and death in case of infection;
– the risk of transmitting the infection from the infected person to the rest of the people;
– the essential activities that ensure the good functioning of the critical infrastructure;
– within the same category can be prioritized subcategories in relation to medical criteria, epidemiological evolution, indications and contraindications of approved vaccine types, vaccine availability.
Priority groups for vaccination against COVID-19
– Health personnel
– Staff from residential and medical-social centers
– Population at high risk of severe evolution in case of SARS-CoV-2 infection
– Staff from other key areas, essential for the proper functioning of the company
– The priority groups were developed in accordance with documents issued by the World Health Organization and ECDC (European Center for Disease Prevention and Control) following country consultations with 19 European countries and the analysis of the situation in Romania at the time of its implementation. document. These recommendations are dynamic and can be updated according to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effectiveness of the types of vaccines approved and available for different population categories.
10. “Romanians will buy their own vaccine”
Vaccination against COVID-19 is free and voluntary / optional and will be provided at no cost to those who will be vaccinated.
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