The Ministry of Health has ordered another 2 million pediatric doses of Pfizer against Covid-19. With this new amount, the folder will acquire 22 million doses of the immunizing agent for children aged 5 to 11 years for the first quarter.
Pediatric doses will be delivered under a government contract to receive 100 million vaccines from Pfizer in 2022, which can be scaled up to 150 million units. The contract provides for doses for adults and children.
According to people who follow the negotiations, this Friday (11) the ministry should also sign the contract with the Butantan Institute for the acquisition of 10 million doses of Coronavac.
On January 21, the ministry included Coronavac in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years. There is no difference between the Coronavac vaccine that will be given to children and the one already used in adults.
In the case of Pfizer’s immunizer, the pediatric dose has an orange cap, while those intended for people over 12 are purple. In addition, the immunizing agent for younger people has a lower dose.
The vaccination of children in Brazil started on January 14th. Indigenous boy Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, 8, was the first immunized with pediatric doses from Pfizer.
The IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) estimated, in 2021, that there were 20.4 million people aged between 5 and 11 in the country.
The vaccination of children and adolescents is a sensitive topic in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, as the president distorts data and discourages the immunization of young people. He even threatened to expose the names of Anvisa servers who approved the use of Pfizer vaccines in children.
In a note released on January 8, the president of Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, rebutted insinuations of alleged hidden interests of Anvisa in vaccinating children and demanded the president’s retraction.
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