Bolsonaro discourages vaccination
Pressured to speed up the vaccination for covid-19, the federal government said on Tuesday that, when the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) authorizes the emergency use of one vaccine, doses will begin being distributed within five days. The forecast is to immunize the population within 16 months. The plan will be presented in a hurriedly scheduled ceremony at the Planalto Palace.
While world leaders have been encouraging their populations to protect themselves, President Jair Bolsonaro said he would not take the vaccine and would demand that those willing to be immunized to sign a term of responsibility about potential side effects.
The Attorney General's Office sent the vaccination timeline to the Federal Supreme Court following a request by Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, who is handling cases on the matter and saw flaws in the text initially presented by the government. The plan devised by the team of Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello doesn't set a date for the beginning of vaccinations under the argument that it is necessary to wait for the Anvisa opinion.
With more than 182,000 dead because of covid-19 in Brazil, Mr. Bolsonaro said on Tuesday, in an interview with TV network Band, that he would not take the vaccine. The president had already raised doubts about the safety of vaccines in trial.
"I can't speak I as citizen one thing and as president another. But as I have never avoided the truth, I tell you: I will not take the vaccine, period. If somebody thinks my life is at risk, the problem is mine. Period," he said.Before, at a meeting with Deputy Geninho Zuliani (Democrats, DEM, of São Paulo), rapporteur of a provisional measure that clears funds for the purchase of vaccines, Mr. Bolsonaro had argued for the requirement of a term of responsibility about possible side effects for those who decide to take the vaccine. Mr. Zuliani accepted including this condition in his report, but then Chamber of Deputies Speaker Rodrigo Maia (DEM of Rio de Janeiro) said lawmakers will not analyze the inclusion of the idea.
Mr. Bolsonaro argued that the pharmaceutical companies don't take responsibility for side effects, which he said "turns the yellow light on."
"There will be a clause there saying that the laboratories don't take responsibility for the side effects. It doesn't matter what the side effects are," he said. "It is a vaccine that is being too fast, and we will inoculate in people. We have to have responsibility."
In an interview...
Para continuar a ler
PEÇA SUA AVALIAÇÃO