The Health Department can receive the company’s first delivery of vaccines Johnson & Johnson this Thursday or Friday, depending on when the federal government receives the government’s request.
The first shipment, the director of the Vaccination program from the desk, Iris Cardona, equates to 28,800 doses of this vaccine, the immunization process of which does not require a second inoculation, unlike vaccines against COVID-19 from Pfizer The Modern
“If we ask for them today or tomorrow, they will arrive on Thursday or Friday, and activities will be planned depending on whether they arrive. We already have activities planned with some homeless shelters for next week. We also have on the agenda to vaccinate some groups of first responders who were missing from the phase 1-B, and then move. Moving on to the north and interest in making progress in the vaccination of older adults, this offers a new alternative in the sense that you can influence a community, you have a large number of people vaccinated and you don’t have to do it in three or four weeks. to return. He outlined Cardona, reiterating that it is not yet known what the weekly flow of deliveries of Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be after receiving the first shipment.
The infectologist recalled the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, made by its subsidiary Janssen, can be stored at refrigerator temperature, allowing doses to be delivered directly to suppliers who do not have ultra-refrigerators, such as those needed to store Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, at minus 80 and 20 degrees Celsius, respectively.
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The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, when refrigerated, has a shelf life of up to three months, although it is intended to be given as soon as possible.
“There are some diseases defined by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) who have a higher risk of complications. Of these groups, we have begun to vaccinate a few patients, such as those on dialysis, who are among those at the highest risk of death from Covid. Then there are the patients against certain types of cancer, which are defined, and we hope that the patient will have the opportunity to find the service where they get their medical care or where they buy their medicines. That would be feasible once progress has been made in the elderly, as we already have multiple pharmacies assigned fixed doses, ” said Cardona, referring to populations in the region. phase 1-C of the vaccination process.
Sub-phase 1-B includes non-institutionalized adults over the age of 65, a group of whom an estimated 400,000 people still need to be vaccinated.
In the interview with SubwayCardona pointed out that the Department of Health administrative order that will determine the groups eligible to be vaccinated would be issued between today and tomorrow.
Today exactly the Administrative Order 480, which has limited the vaccination process to older adults and school staff since February 2.
The new order “was assessed by the secretary (Carlos MelladoThe criteria are already there. If it comes out today or tomorrow, I can’t tell you, but I know it’s under the Secretary’s evaluation. It will mean that we can complete the vaccination of certain groups that were put on hold (and) the exercises targeting homeless people, even if they are not yet 65 years old, to do everything in the law, ” said the former State Secretary for Health. .