Private clinics have already started to receive, this Monday (30), the immunizing agent from AstraZeneca, which should be sold in a range of R$300 to R$350 per dose. The information is from ABCvac (Brazilian Association of Vaccine Clinics).
According to the entity, the vaccine is the same as that applied in the public network, having been imported directly from the manufacturer — only the packaging is different. The association was unable to inform when the application for the general public will actually start in the country, since the decision is up to each clinic.
ABCvac also states that the price of each dose takes into account logistics, storage, insurance and application costs. The association says that the expectation is that, by the end of this week, doses will land in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
AstraZeneca claims that it has about 2 million doses available for the private network, 1 million of which have already arrived and are being distributed. The rest should arrive in the next few months.
On April 22, the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) announced the end of the health emergency in the country. By rule, 30 days after the decision, clinics and private companies were able to acquire vaccines against Covid-19 without the need to donate to SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde).
Until then, the private network could already acquire the immunizers against Covid, but it was obliged to donate everything to the public system.
According to a note published on the ABCvac website, the private application of the third dose can be given to anyone over 18 years of age, regardless of the primary regimen, as long as there is an interval of at least four months from the second dose.
In addition, private clinics will also be able to apply the fourth dose to anyone over the age of 18 — in the public network, this application is restricted to people over 60 and immunosuppressed. For this, however, a doctor’s prescription and an interval of four months from the third dose are required.
According to doctors and researchers, further studies are still needed to know if the application of a fourth dose in the general population actually brings advantages in the fight against Covid.
People over 18 who have not received any dose can also be vaccinated in the private network.
“Each patient should get in touch with their trusted clinic, get informed and schedule according to the availability of doses, as the bottles after opened have a validity period of 48 hours. In this way, there must be a plan to avoid wastage.”
Even if applied by private clinics, vaccines must be registered in the ConectSUS information program. So far, only AstraZeneca has signaled availability to the private sector.
In a note, the association concludes that it hopes that “with the passage of time and total control of the pandemic, the Covid vaccine will become a routine vaccine, like the flu vaccine, for example. We believe that at some point there will be a narrowing of the age group and groups vaccinated by the PNI, and, thus, the clinics will act as a complement and for those ineligible, as already happens with the flu vaccine.”
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