Saturday March 26, 2022 | 5:30 a.m.
Yesterday the anti-flu campaign began in Misiones, with an event that took place at the Itaembé Guazú Hospital, in Posadas. The event was attended by Governor Oscar Herrera Ahuad, Deputy Governor Carlos Arce, Minister of Health Oscar Alarcón, among other provincial officials. On the occasion, the president applied the trivalent dose and also the fourth dose once morest the coronavirus. Later it was the turn of the health personnel of the hospital. The campaign began simultaneously throughout the province.
Likewise, the implementation of the fourth dose was announced to combat the coronavirus in all people who have passed 120 days (four months) from their last dose. Priority will be given to those with comorbidities, health, education or security workers and people traveling abroad, duly accrediting such a situation.
Target
The target population of the anti-flu campaign is 279,658 people and last Tuesday the first 35,840 doses for adults arrived. On Monday the first batch will arrive for the children, 25,760 doses.
This year the vaccine is trivalent because it is used to combat the H1N1, H3N2 and B strains and is applied in hospitals and primary health care centers (Caps). The risk groups are health personnel, pregnant women, postpartum women, children between 6 and 24 months, people between 2 and 64 years old with risk factors, adults over 65 years old and strategic personnel, including teachers and police officers, he indicated. Public health.
This first batch of flu is intended for health personnel, pregnant women and postpartum women.
In this framework, Minister Alarcón expressed that it should be taken into account that there was a two-year pandemic with respiratory diseases due to Covid-19, for which “the target population is going to increase due to the people who were left with sequelae and who today They are not registered, but we are going to incorporate them to make flu vaccination more universal,” he stressed.
Regarding the flu vaccination for children, he stressed its importance, especially with the beginning of face-to-face classes. “It is proven that it does not have any type of collateral affectation and the boys, being vaccinated, also take care of their parents,” she specified.
Vaccination once morest the flu “is essential,” said Oscar López, an infectious disease doctor at the Dr. Fernando Barreyro Pediatric Hospital. In communication with El Territorio, he said that the inoculation does not prevent the disease, but it does prevent serious cases. The coverage is “ once morest the two influenza A viruses. One is seasonal or the common flu; the other is the H1N1 that caused the pandemic in 2009 and that is more aggressive than the common flu and covers one of the types of influenza B”, he explained. Referring to children who are vaccinated for the first time between 6 months and 8 years old, he externalized that two doses should be given, with a period of one month between the first and the second “for them to be effective.” On the other hand, if they received the inoculation in previous years, the two doses are not necessary, but one is enough, he assured.
All people between the ages of 2 and 60 who have risk factors such as severe asthma, obesity, heart disease, immunosuppressed diseases, who take drugs that lower their defenses, or who have cancer should also be vaccinated. Meanwhile, he stated that the flu “is compatible with any other vaccine. They can be given the same day or wait several days between one and another vaccine, ”he advised.
Cases begin to register with the arrival of autumn. The professional commented that in the pediatric hospital, “we have had few cases of influenza A, and there was also one of flurone – that is, a combination of coronaviruses with influenza – in a 10-year-old girl not vaccinated once morest any of the respective viruses.” The little girl suffers from asthma and was hospitalized for ten days in intensive care, “therefore, the family made a serious mistake in not vaccinating her,” she qualified. The little girl has already been discharged and she is out of danger, López added.
Covid-19
The fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine is available in the province, as announced yesterday by Deputy Governor Carlos Arce. In this sense, it will be immunized in cases in which between four and five months have elapsed since receiving the third dose. This, because it was scientifically proven that the risk of contracting the disease increases once this time has passed, he reported and maintained that there are regarding 300 thousand who passed that period of time. The measure has the endorsement of the Scientific Committee of the province.
In reference to the significant decrease in cases of coronavirus at the provincial level, Minister Alarcón clarified that the detection system continues to work: “It is not that we do not have tests, but that people do not have symptoms, they do not need to be tested. test and not consult”. He added that the occupancy of beds decreased notably, “above all, there are no intensive care beds occupied,” he stressed, and reported that this is one of the data that they take into account to know how the epidemiological rates are.
Likewise, due to the fact that the low temperature season has entered, he recalled that they continue with constant epidemiological surveillance in all municipalities, and this implies continuing to use the chinstrap in all classes, both at school and outside this area. “The pandemic has not ended, that is why we must continue to use masks and other biosecurity measures, but not only because of Covid-19 but also because of the rest of the pathologies,” he warned. This, because the province adhered to the national regulations in the last Cofesa meeting on Friday the 18th of this month. Alarcón reported that at the meeting, most of the ministers reached a consensus that it is advisable to continue using said protection element, “both in places where there is agglomeration, inside institutions or closed places.”
Four cases in Misiones and only six boarding schools
Yesterday four other Covid-19 infections were detected in Misiones, according to Public Health in its daily report in the followingnoon. Three of the patients are from Posadas and one from Garupá. Thus, there are 83,924 cases accumulated since the pandemic began. Until yesterday there were 346 active cases, people with the disease, of which six are hospitalized. As anticipated hours before the Minister of Health, Oscar Alarcón, there are no patients who require intensive care beds. This Friday there were no deaths, so the number of deaths remains at 929 and those recovered are 82,649 people.
At the national level, the Ministry of Health of the Nation reported yesterday 2,572 coronavirus infections in the country and 66 deaths. There were 607 hospitalized patients in therapy throughout the country. The rate of bed occupancy beyond the ailment that explains the patient’s hospitalization, at the national level averages 37.7% and in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Amba) it is of 39%.
In figures
35.840
The first 35,840 flu doses to be applied to adults arrived in the province. The target population is between 287,000 and 290,000 people.
Flu: what is the population at risk
Health personnel
This year, the health personnel includes strategic personnel, made up of teachers and security forces.
pregnant
They can be in any trimester of pregnancy. Another risk group is made up of puerperal women.
Children
Those who are vaccinated for the first time should receive two doses, with a period of one month between the first and the second.
Between 2 and 64 years
With risk factors such as severe asthma, obesity, heart disease, immunosuppressed diseases, people who take medication or suffer from cancer.
