MEXICO CITY (proces.com.mx) .- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said on different occasions that he would wait his turn to receive the covid-19 vaccine, and that everything would be in accordance with the vaccination strategy of his government and that of Mexico City.
Being 67 years old, the president is within the target population to be vaccinated in the second stage of vaccination, which includes older adults. However, given the implementation schedule, so far you have not received any doses, despite the fact that he also suffers from hypertension, one of the main diseases associated with deaths from covid-19.
However, this Sunday, the government of Mexico City reported that Between March 30 and April 3, the older adults of the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office will be vaccinated, demarcation in which it is located National Palace, the historic headquarters where President López Obrador currently lives with his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller and their son Jesús Ernesto López Gutiérrez.
The vaccine that the president would receive would be the one developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, a drug that in previous weeks was questioned for an alleged relationship with cases of thrombosis, to the extent that its application was suspended in several European countries.
However, both the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency assured that there is no evidence to support this relationship, so they called for continuing to apply it. Does your benefits outweigh the risks?.
Meanwhile, the capital government itself highlighted that the AstraZeneca vaccine has the approval of more than 25 countries, and that after receiving the two doses, the chances of having a symptomatic disease decrease by up to 76%, and in the case of older adults that percentage rises to 85%. Furthermore, it is 100% effective against serious illness and hospitalization.
In accordance with the strategy announced by the Claudia Sheinbaum government, the president would have to be vaccinated with his first dose this Thursday, April 1 at La Salle University, the Vasconcelos Library or the Benito Juárez Elementary School, venues arranged for application in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office.
However, in its press conference on January 19, 2021, the Tabasco said he was analyzing where he could receive the vaccine once his turn came. At the time, he said it could be during ?? the morning ?? to build trust among the population, or privately so that their? adversaries? do not see the face that makes the pain of the injection.
It should be remembered that López Obrador was already sick with covid-19, which forced him to isolate himself from January 24 to February 8. He reportedly underwent a ?? experimental treatment ?? of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition.
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