In the last week of 2022, Mexico began the Application Day of Cuban Abdala Vaccines as part of the booster immunization program. Of the 4,000,000 doses available up to that point, just over 6,000 have been used due to public distrust despite the surge in new infections, which recorded 36,181 cases on December 27th.
“It must not be given to children, it must be given to adults,” said the former health commissioner who dealt with Mexico’s influenza A (H1N1) pandemic from 2009 to 2010. Abdala is “a vaccine that has an original sin because without having a phase 3 trial, Cuba began massively dealing with more than 1,000,000 people. It has also not been studied as a booster shot.” The specialist said the Cuban dose “appears” to be safe and effective.
“You have to understand that in a clinical trial they can be 2,000, 20,000 or 50,000 people, but in the open population hundreds and millions of people have not yet been experienced,” he said. shared on their social media Laurie Ann Ximénez-Fyvie, Doctor of Medical Sciences specializing in Microbiology. The problem with Abdala is that there isn’t “sufficient information” about its effectiveness as a booster.
The Abdala vaccine, of which Mexico bought 9,000,000 million doses from the Cuban government, does not have studies certifying it “as a boost” against Covid-19
The Abdala vaccine, of which Mexico bought 9,000,000 million doses from the Cuban government, has neither World Health Organization (WHO) endorsement nor studies certifying it “as a boost” against Covid-19. The infectologist and National Health Award 2020, Francisco Moreno Sánchez, stressed that the effectiveness of the island’s antidotes against the new variants of the coronavirus is also unknown.
Mexico City Health Minister Oliva López attributed the low influx of vaccination units to year-end parties. He confirmed to the newspaper Milenio that this immune system was “the only available immune system” for people over 18 years old, although he also acknowledged that the doses bought from the island are “much more responsive to the original forms of the virus”, but practically the Majority of vaccines have the technology to treat coronavirus.
Despite the optimism of the López health company in Matamoros (Tamaulipas), another state with little interest from people in getting vaccinated with Abdala, the head of the VI Health Judiciary, Juan Pérez, told Milenio that the available doses “to start programs, it is not reinforcement and it is for persons over 18 years of age”.
The Cuban Abdala Vaccine Study: Efficacy in Preventing Major Illness and Death from COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba; A cohort study published in the journal The Lancent shows that the drug is 92.3% effective.
dr Moreno Sánchez directly informed on his social networks about the doses developed against the coronavirus on the island and that he has marketed with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Vietnam and worked out with Tehran. “For consistency, I wouldn’t use it on myself or my family. A vaccine that is not approved by the WHO does not have the scientific support to recommend it.”
“Abdala contains aluminum hydroxide as an adjuvant, which is not the case with other vaccines against Covid-19, since its effectiveness decreases,” said Moreno Sánchez on his social networks.
The specialist mentioned that “we are no longer at the stage where there were no vaccines, it has already happened. Now we know that there are better, more up-to-date vaccines, and the decision was simply made to use this vaccine for political purposes. Health, safety and efficacy play no role in the decision.”
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