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Why don’t they want to get vaccinated against COVID? – The financial

Why Chiapas have a significant delay in vaccination?

According to several local media, at the beginning of the pandemic, several people underestimated and questioned the existence of SARS-CoV-2 and its effects on the human body.

Phrases like: “I don’t believe in that”, “That doesn’t exist”, “They want to control us”, were some of the most heard by several reporters when asking people about the virus.


Added to this, the lack of opportunities and access to new information technologies, and the enormous educational gap that has dragged on for several decades, have contributed to the access of Chiapas to quality information sources.

In this sense, the subject of vaccination is not very different, since the communities furthest from the cities prefer to use their own methods to counteract the virus or make use of domestic or traditional medicine.

To this is added the lack of educational technology, reliable sources and high rates of misinformation with regard to vaccines, generated by the population itself and the media.

In this regard, the director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, mentioned that there are different ways of informing regarding the benefits of receiving the vaccine in a “state that is characterized by being multicultural and multilingual, rumors or disinformation they cannot beat the country’s effort to protect the population ”.

According to local newspapers, there are arguments of the population not to go to be vaccinated because the distance between the community and the vaccination module is wider, since the population must move to the municipal seat and not to the nearest health centers.

The foregoing shows a lack of organization and logistics on the part of the authorities to take the vaccine to different regions, although in some communities the population has flatly refused to apply the vaccine.

At the beginning of the year, in the municipality of San Juan Cancuc, an assembly was held between representatives of 45 communities and government personnel in which the inhabitants, in accordance with their uses and customs, voted against receiving the vaccine.

Similarly, state health authorities found more than 150 localities in 25 municipalities that also refused to be inoculated, since they have only reported few cases without deaths.

Likewise, the rural population shows more confidence in the relief techniques that they can find from their own support networks, such as religious groups. While others cling to their faith, and still others have been immersed in the rumors arising from the so-called infodemic.

However, it has been the members of the church themselves who have also encouraged the population to get vaccinated and to combat the existing infodemic about vaccines, since they are all safe, so they asked to believe in global and national institutions.

As of this Sunday, July 11, Chiapas is the state with the greatest lag in vaccination, with only 19 percent of the adult population vaccinated with at least one dose, after last Friday began vaccination for adults 40 years and over.

By comparison, in Baja California 79 percent of the population is already vaccinated, while in Mexico City, 63 percent already have at least one dose.

Given this, the IMSS of Chiapas announced the creation of the ‘Strategy 2 + 1’, which establishes that young people who come to the vaccination centers with two adults over 40, may be inoculated.

The foregoing with the aim of accelerating vaccination and increasing the number of people inoculated to guarantee the immunity of the ‘herd’ in the entity.

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