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Mexico will adjust vaccination plan against COVID-19 due to reduction of Pfizer deliveries

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that despite the reduction in the delivery of doses from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, his government will finish vaccinating adults older than 60 years. “We are the first in Latin America in the application of vaccine and as explained here, by the end of March, we will finish vaccinating all adults older than 60 years and this, of According to scientists, it will allow us to reduce mortality by up to 80 percent. " Despite the decrease due to the circumstances that Pfizer presented us to a UN lawsuit, so that vaccines are available for countries that have less economic possibilities than us, still look at how we are doing, this too it has a lot to do with the organization, our government is organized, it is the organ...
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Mexico agrees to reduce the order of Pfizer vaccines to send them to poorer countries

AMLO reports that Mexico would be willing to reduce Pfizer vaccines to deliver them to poorer countries, this at the proposal of the UN. Photo: Presidency of Mexico / EFE President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that Mexico agreed to reduce the delivery of vaccines against Covid - 19 to send them to poorer countries, on the condition that they are later replenished, as proposed by the UN in order there is no hoarding. “ Now in the world there is a controversy because the UN has asked Pfizer to lower your deliveries to the countries in which you have a contract, as in our case, the European countries, so that a quantity of vaccines is available to the UN and that there is no hoarding and that the UN also makes these vaccines available to poorer countries ", he stated. " W...
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Slow vaccination: California has administered 800 thousand of the 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines it has

The opinion California Governor Gavin Newsom assured that the state aims to vaccinate one million more people this week Newsom himself is in quarantine after possible exposure. Photo: Jae C. Hong-Pool / Getty Images The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom assured this Monday that the state is preparing to add massive new vaccination sites in a new effort to increase vaccine distribution and administer at one million doses before Sunday. Newsom, who recently acknowledged that the process had been slow , revealed that since the approval of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the state has received a total of 2, 125, 125 dose and has only managed 783, 550 until last Sunday. The governor emphasized that the golden state will seek to administer a million ext...
Portugal investigates the “sudden” death of a health worker who received the Pfizer vaccine
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Portugal investigates the “sudden” death of a health worker who received the Pfizer vaccine

Health authorities in Portugal are investigating the sudden death of Sónia Azevedo, assistant in pediatric surgery at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) in Porto , who died at home while sleeping two days after being vaccinated against coronavirus . The 41 year old woman had received a dose of Pfizer's vaccine against COVID - 19 on 30 December. On January 1, the woman died "suddenly" and, at the moment, the authorities and her relatives are waiting for the results of the autopsy to establish the cause of death. . The aforementioned institute indicated in a statement on Sunday that the health worker did not report any adverse effects either at the time of vaccination or in the following days. The father of the deceased told Correio da Manhã that his daughter was fine af...
Puerto Rico goes for the second dose of vaccines against the coronavirus
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Puerto Rico goes for the second dose of vaccines against the coronavirus

Jahaira Alicea, the respiratory therapy specialist who treated the first case of COVID - 19 in Puerto Rico, was vaccinated with the dose of Pfizer at Ashford Hospital. Photo: Ashford Hospital / EFE By Osman Pérez Méndez PUERTO RICO - In an atmosphere of optimism and confidence, dozens of employees of the Ashford Hospital received this morning the second dose of COVID vaccine - 19, without So far no case of adverse reaction to the vaccine has been reported. In fact, as they have been able to confirm, the vaccinated already report the presence of antibodies in their system, which would be giving them the protection sought with the vaccine. The infectologist Miguel Colón commented that about the 80% of employees, doctors and nurses have been vaccinated and have registered “a...
December closed as the deadliest month and the most cases of coronavirus in the United States
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December closed as the deadliest month and the most cases of coronavirus in the United States

By: Lucía Leal WASHINGTON - The United States began the New Year this Friday with a worrying milestone, by surpassing the 20 million confirmed cases of COVID - 19 while the British strain of the virus was detected in a more state and concern increased about the delays in the vaccination campaign. The number of infections in the USA it has doubled in less than two months, since the 10 million cases were reached on November 9, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which prepares an independent count and this Friday rose to 346. 800 the death toll in the country. This fact illustrates the seriousness of the regrowth that the United States is experiencing, which in December registered several daily records in the number of deaths from VOC ID - 20 and closed 800 with an...