Covid: Group with comorbidities receives the bivalent in SP – 04/04/2023 – Health

As of this Wednesday (5), the São Paulo Municipal Health Secretariat expands vaccination against Covid-19 with the bivalent Pfizer for health professionals, people with permanent physical disabilities, the population deprived of liberty and system employees. prison, in addition to people aged 12 and over with comorbidities (diabetes, lung diseases, cerebrovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, Down syndrome, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases).

To receive the vaccine, all people with comorbidities must present proof of a recent risk condition, which can be an exam, prescription, medical report or medical prescription, containing the doctor’s CRM.

Until then, vaccination was being carried out for the elderly over 60 years of age, in addition to people over 12 years of age with immunosuppression, indigenous people, pregnant and puerperal women, residents of long-stay institutions and employees of these facilities in the city of São Paulo.

According to the Vaccinometer Bulletin released this Tuesday (4), the Health Department has already administered 859,924 doses of the bivalent Pfizer vaccine to the target audience.

According to the secretariat, 521,232 doses of immunizer arrived in the municipality in recent weeks: 335,370 on March 28 and 185,862 on Tuesday, which made it possible to expand the campaign.

On March 21, management Ricardo Nunes stated that he did not have enough doses to expand immunization, because he expected a new shipment from the state government.

Formulated with the original variant from Wuhan and the omicron variant, which is predominant in the world, Pfizer’s updated version showed greater protective capacity against infections, hospitalizations and deaths in studies.

In clinical studies around the world, the vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective.

Specialists argue that the monovalent vaccines still have a high efficacy of protection against hospitalizations and deaths, mainly in younger individuals, but that reinforcement with the bivalent vaccine is important for older people, mainly those with 70 years or more, and who already for a long time without updating the reinforcement, in the case of Brazil.

Vaccination in São Paulo is carried out at the UBSs (Basic Health Units) and at the AMAs (Outpatient Medical Assistance)/Integrated UBSs, from Monday to Friday, from 7 am to 7 pm, and on Saturdays, at the AMAs/Integrated UBSs, as well. from 7 am to 7 pm.

The addresses of the units can be found on the Vacina Sampa page.