The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, accused the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), of “taking a stand” with the start of childhood vaccination against Covid-19 in the country.
Doria participated this Friday (14) in the beginning of the state campaign to immunize children from 5 to 11 years old, at Hospital das Clínicas, in São Paulo.
The governor, who is a pre-candidate for the Palácio do Planalto, was next to the indigenous boy Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, 8, the first child vaccinated against the coronavirus in Brazil.
“Politician João Doria underestimates the population. He has the vaccines of the government of Brazil and the Brazilian people in his hands on the platform. He thinks this will take him out of the 3% [de intenção de voto]. Give up! Your marketing will not change the face of your management. Paulistas deserve someone better,” Queiroga wrote on Twitter.
“Pediatric vaccines arrived in Brazil in record time! Soon after authorization from the regulatory agency, the pharmaceutical company began producing doses and guaranteed that this was the best possible schedule. The Ministry of Health guarantees that all parents who want to vaccinate will have vaccines!”
President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) opposes vaccination of children. In addition to questioning the effectiveness of vaccines, he guarantees that his minor daughter will not be immunized.
Despite the minister’s speech, he was accused of adopting measures to delay the beginning of childhood immunization and of defending measures that, in practice, discourage vaccination.
Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) authorized, on December 16 of last year, the use of Pfizer’s immunizing agent in children.
Two days later, Queiroga stated that the beginning of childhood vaccination in Brazil needed “a more in-depth analysis”.
The Ministry of Health also opened a public consultation on the subject. The move has been classified by public health experts as “idiocy”, “procrastination”, “nonsense” and “stone age stuff”.
Most of those who participated in the consultation were against the medical prescription for vaccinating children.
Queiroga had recommended that the immunization of children should take place upon presentation of a medical prescription.
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