The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), received the vaccine against Covid-19 this Tuesday as part of the reinforcement campaign announced by your government and He did it on camera during his morning show with Antigen Abdalabought by the Cuban ally and which has sparked controversy in the country.
In addition to Abdala, López Obrador was also vaccinated with an antigen against influenza. “You didn’t even feel anything,” he said, talking about the safety of vaccines in preventing disease.
employee of Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) of the State of Morelos They reported that the authorities were forcing them to do so Use expired doses of the Cuban Abdala vaccine.
The workers, who did not want to reveal their names, told the Mexican newspaper El Universal The aim is to discreetly use expired vaccines in the 24 IMSS units in Morelosas well as in the health centers of this state.
The head of the IMSS operational body in this state, Angélica María Martínez López, rejected the complaint and stated that They received a first batch of almost 90,000 doses of Abdalaapply to the entire local population.
In an interview, Martínez López said that it was a Formula with “scientific certainty of 93 percent immunization.”says the English-language specialist magazine “My Medical”.
The government of Last week, Mexico launched a vaccination campaign using mainly the Abdala vaccine across the country. purchased by the Cuban government. The Russian Sputnik is also there. Mexican Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Ruy López Ridaura stated that Abdala could effectively prevent serious complications and deaths caused by the Omicron variant and its sub-variants.
López Ridaura justified this at the launch ceremony of the corona vaccination strategy Cuban researchers have had difficulty publishing the results of their studies on Abdala, but they presented it to specialists from the Ministry of Health (SSA) and they confirmed that the product is highly effective in preventing serious complications of Covid-19. The antigen is not recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
In Mexico, Abdala was deployed as reinforcement without the approval of the Federal Commission for Protection from Health Risks (COFEPRIS). Several experts criticized the Mexican government’s decision to purchase a vaccine they considered “outdated.”
While the FDA approved the use of updated vaccines against Covid-19, called bivalents, the government in Mexico refused to purchase these vaccines, leaving the Cuban injections as the only option.
The state governments of Puebla, Mexico City, Nuevo León, Colima, Veracruz and others conducted campaigns in the first half of the year to invite the population to receive the Abdala vaccine as a booster in health centers. But in states like Jalisco, authorities refused.
At the end of December 2022, it became apparent that the influx of people to the vaccination centers set up by the Mexico City Ministry of Health to administer Abdala doses was low.. This was despite the fact that the country was experiencing a sixth wave of Covid-19 infections at the time.
At the beginning of August last year The Mexican president defended the use of the Abdala vaccine developed by the Cuban government. AMLO described the rejection of the drug as “ignorance” by parts of his country’s conservative bloc.