It may seem cliche and repetitive to start talking about vaccinations and deaths caused by Covid19 again. However, this is an issue that we will have to raise countless times before it is clear to everyone that vaccination is the best tool to avoid deaths and consequences of the coronavirus.
Whenever new variants and/or subvariants of the virus emerge, we all turn on an alert to know if they are more dangerous than the previous ones. However, we soon relaxed and many didn’t wake up to the fact that global vaccination is the best way to prevent variants from emerging and fight the pandemic.
More than 100 million Brazilians have not taken the third dose of vaccine. Of course, two cans provide some protection. But with mutations like those of the Omicron variant, which have allowed the virus to partially evade vaccine immunity, we cannot ignore the fact that only three doses can guarantee complete protection without considering that the majority of the population does have already taken the fourth dose, which would now technically be the first booster.
The lack of that blessed third dose of vaccine means we’re still stuck with “a plane crashing every day,” with Covid19 causing about 130 deaths every 24 hours
It’s time to act
We have changed governments and the Ministry of Health last week published a vaccination plan with bivalent vaccines that will be used from February 27th and protect against the “original coronavirus” that started the pandemic and the Omicron variant.
We must soon make these immunizers available to the entire population and take effective measures to encourage everyone to seek their dose because while vaccination is stopped, deaths continue.
Where are the socially oriented intensive works? Intensive propaganda in all media? Pedagogical Creativity for “Different Brazilian Societies”? We must take into account the multiple languages that exist in the country. We must understand that this work requires professionals from different fields.
Although the government is less than a month old, there has already been transition work showing intensive investment would be needed to avoid deaths from Covid19. Therefore, there is and still is an urgent need to intensify this work.
We must not lose sight of the fight against the corona virus. We’re averaging about 130 deaths a day and the pandemic isn’t over yet. Not to mention the terrible consequences for a large number of infected people.
An oversight can make the tragedy caused by Covid19 last much longer. So we need everyone’s responsibility. Each of us has to do something, be it personally, be it in the home, be it in the community, be it in politics. This fight isn’t over, and if we keep going like this, it won’t be over any time soon.