The Mexican government confirmed that four out of every five people who were vaccinated against the flu so far in 2023, refused to receive boosters of Cuban or Russian vaccines against COVID-19.
The Undersecretary of Health in Mexico, Ruy López Ridaura, said in a press conference this Tuesday that this high rejection rate was due to the fact that people prefer not to receive two vaccines (flu and COVID-19) at the same time.
“People have a certain reluctance to get vaccinated simultaneously,” said the official quoted by AP.
The Department of Health noted that Mexicans had extremely high rates of vaccination against COVID-19 in 2021 and 2022.
Currently the population eligible for the flu and COVID-19 vaccination process are those over 60 years of age and people with underlying health problems.
In 2022 Cuba sent more than 4 million doses of Abdala that would be used for the immunization of adults in Mexico.
Despite receiving criticism of Cuban vaccines from the Mexican population at that time, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador bought more doses.
In October 2023, 2.8 million Abdala vaccines arrived in the Aztec country. The president himself was vaccinated in public. It was their way of joining the campaign for Mexicans to use the Cuban drug, but apparently they have not achieved the effect they desired.
What do you think?
COMMENTFiled in: