SC ends influenza vaccination campaign with less than half of the target population immunized

The influenza vaccination campaign ends on Friday (31) across the country. In Santa Catarina, less than half of the target population received the vaccine, leaving the state below its vaccination target, which was 90%. As of Friday, 44.1% of the priority population had been vaccinated, according to Health Ministry data.

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Since the beginning of May, the vaccine has been available to all residents over a 6-month period in Santa Catarina. The priority audience was 3 million people, but only 1.4 million have been vaccinated.

The recommendation is still to go to the nearest health unit to get vaccinated, and to do so as quickly as possible, as full immunization does not come until two to three weeks after taking the dose.

Children who are getting the vaccine for the first time should take two doses, 30 days apart. The influenza vaccine dose can be given with other vaccines listed in the national vaccination calendar, except for the influenza vaccine. Dengue fever. The recommended interval between influenza and dengue doses is 24 hours.

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The vaccine offered at the Public Health Network prevents the main influenza viruses found in Brazil, namely influenza A (H1N1), influenza A (H3N2), and influenza B virus.

Priority groups for influenza vaccination

• Children aged 6 months to <6 years (5 years, 11 months, 29 days);
• health workers;
• Pregnant and postpartum women (mothers up to 45 years postpartum);
• Primary and higher education teachers;
• Indigenous peoples and quilombola;
• Seniors aged 60 or over;
• homeless people;
• Security and rescue forces professionals;
• Armed forces professionals;
• People with chronic non-communicable diseases and other special clinical conditions regardless of their age;
• People with permanent disabilities;
• truck drivers;
• Public land transport workers for urban and long-distance passengers;
• dock workers;
• Population deprived of liberty, workers in the system of deprivation of liberty, adolescents and young people aged 12 to 21 years under social and educational measures.

Vaccination campaign

In Brazil, the campaign began at the beginning of last March, due to the increasing cases of respiratory diseases. Even with the end of the campaign, vaccines remain available in health centers.

Another below-target vaccine is dengue, which is available in three regions of the state (North-East, Medio Valle de Itajaí, and Greater Florianópolis) for children aged 10 to 14 years. Only 23.89% of Target audience for vaccination Against dengue fever received the vaccine in Santa Catarina. The goal recommended by the Ministry of Health is to vaccinate at least 90% of the public.

The situation is even more dire in Médio Vale, where only 9.28% of the target audience had been vaccinated as of Dive’s latest update. 4,409 doses of the vaccine were administered, half of them in Blumenau, where there were 2,219 doses. In the region, the target audience is 47,463 children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14, who are a priority population for dengue vaccination.

Since the beginning of immunization, Santa Catarina has received 62,624 doses of the vaccine, according to the Santa Catarina Health Surveillance Directorate (Dive/SC), but only 47,045 of them have been applied.

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