Bolsonaro calls child vaccination propaganda and omits data on child deaths from Covid-19

Bolsonaro calls child vaccination propaganda and omits data on child deaths from Covid-19

In an interview with TV Nova Nordeste, of Pernambuco, the president repudiated the green light given by the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) on December 16 to vaccinate children under 11 with Pfizer and regulated on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health. Health.

“I tell parents that Pfizer does not take care of collateral effects. Anvisa itself says that the child who receives the vaccine may feel short of breath. I ask you if you know of any children between 5 and 11 years old who have died. by Covid. I do not know, “said Bolsonaro, ignoring the fact that 301 boys of that age group have already died from the pandemic, according to official data.

And he insisted: “You, father, are you going to vaccinate your child against something that is young on its own, that being infected by the virus the chance of dying is almost zero? What is behind that? What is the Anvisa’s interest in the vaccine? What is the interest of perverted people in the vaccine? I ask parents not to be carried away by propaganda. Talk to your neighbors, because many children had Covid and nothing happened to them “, he claimed.

Bolsonaro asked not to be called a denialist since he himself bought the doses for the Ministry of Health but opposed his own public policies, with the doubts that he is placing on childhood vaccination.

The former Army captain had threatened to disclose the names of the Anvisa executives who released child vaccination, a case in which the Federal Police is intervening due to the death threats that people aligned with the president’s far-right ideology have launched against these professionals chosen by public competition.

Brazil must receive about 20 million doses of Pfizer by March and the first batch will arrive on January 13, which is why Rio de Janeiro went ahead and scheduled the start of vaccination for 11-year-old children for January 17.

The far-right, who had said that the pandemic was a “flu” and that “those who have to die should die,” refuses to be vaccinated on the grounds that he already had Covid-19, although he decreed a 100-year state secret of your vaccination book.

Despite the fact that Brazil has a unique health system that is in charge of vaccination – complete immunization reached 67% of the population and 75% received a dose – the first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, went to the United States to get vaccinated, during the president’s trip to New York, last September.

Bolsonaro interrupted his vacation on the beach in Santa Catarina after being hospitalized on Monday of this week for an intestinal obstruction from eating shrimp without proper chewing.

The president has problems in his digestive system – the reason for four surgeries – after being the target of a knife attack on September 6, 2018, during the electoral campaign that took him to the head of state.

Source From: Ambito

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