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This week, exactly on Wednesday 27th DecemberThree years have passed since the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 started in Spain. It was only a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. when, in front of press cameras, 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo, who lived in the Los Olmos residence in Guadalajara, received the first dose and thanked God for it.
today they are 105.8 million vaccine doses given in our country And according to Health Ministry data, there are 40.7 million people (92% of the population above 12 years of age) who have a complete diet.
These vaccines (there are many) are so excellent for health and the global economy that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden honored them Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 To Catalin Carico and Drew Weissman for a COVID-19 vaccine based on messenger RNA.
Previous scientific and technical knowledge (not only that of Carico, who had been working on it in the shadows for four decades) was fundamental to historical milestoneBut many basic and clinical researchers, the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies and competent international and national authorities around the world contributed to obtaining the first four vaccines against COVID-19 in record time, less than a year .
For example, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was established expedited examination procedures to evaluate applications for approval as quickly as possible, “without undermining the strength of the scientific advice”; In particular, ongoing reviews to evaluate data as it becomes available, rather than waiting until all trials have finished.
Additionally, many pharmaceutical companies with the capacity to mass-produce vaccines began manufacturing them “at risk” (before they received approval). And distribution was another fundamental part of the machine, as was the mass vaccination campaign in which the so-called vaccinodromes,
As is often the case, there is a dark side to this wonderful story: global inequality in access. From the beginning, humanity was practically on the same page when faced with the threat of the terrifying and unknown SARS-CoV-2. But with the arrival of these vaccines again divided into rich and poor (While 80% of Europeans had already been vaccinated, only 10% of Africans had been vaccinated).
it was embarrassing Disproportionate amounts of vaccines are hoarded in some countries And very sadly, in many of them, including ours, millions of doses were discarded due to expiry (EU member states are estimated to have destroyed more than 215 million doses of these vaccines).
He Cost is also a notable issue: Spain spent a total of 2,436 million euros on vaccines against Covid-19 in 2021; More than 1,200 million in 2022, and this year it is already at 336 million.
“Vaccines will help end the COVID-19 pandemic, but only if we guarantee fair access to all countries and we created solid systems to deliver them,” warned WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Fortunately, many international organizations and platforms contributed to reducing the problem.
But today we need to celebrate that, as the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities said last July (it includes the 38 main regulatory agencies, including the Spanish one), these vaccines have “saved millions of lives around the world.” Saved his life.” world, for rThe risk of serious illness, hospitalization, and death is substantially reduced,
There is an Ethiopian proverb that summarizes this great story perfectly: “When spiders weave together, they can tame a lion.”
