Vaccinations against COVID-19

The minister of health signed an advance purchase agreement for 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for PLN 10 billion. To date, 56.7 million doses have been administered. Currently, there are 25 million doses in the Governmental Agency for Strategic Reserves. For comparison, the UK Health Minister contracted the purchase of 190 million doses for a population of 68 million. Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska informed that we donated 11 million vaccines free of charge, among others to Montenegro, Georgia, Palestine and Vietnam. It is possible to help other countries, but is it precisely this way?

At the meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee on September 28, 2022, Deputy Minister Waldemar Kraska said that “we are launching a new information campaign on the COVID-19 prevention program. We called this campaign I WANT TO UNDERSTAND. The material will promote a willingness to understand what vaccines are doing. "Coming soon, vaccination began on December 27, 2020. After 21 months of mass vaccination, the" what vaccines are for "campaign sounds like a grim joke. During a press conference on September 28, Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski said that the new campaign will mainly consist in respecting the fact that the decision to vaccinate is an autonomous decision. In other words, do whatever you want, as Jurek Owsiak says.

The Deputy Minister of Health informed Members that "when it comes to vaccine prices, this is a sensitive piece of information and we cannot pass it on at the moment." The facts are as follows - in November 2020, the prices of vaccines against COVID-19. In December 2020, the Belgian Minister of Budget Eva De Bleeker revealed vaccine prices for the European Union: AstraZeneca-1.8 euros, Johnson-8.5 dollars, Pfizer/BioNTech-12 euros, Moderna-18 dollars, CureVac-10 euro.

Deputy Minister Kraska stated that “On May 16 this year, the implementation of the National Immunization Program (NPS) against COVID-19 was entrusted to the Minister of Health. Previously, the supervision of the NPS was carried out by the government plenipotentiary for NPS. The organizational change did not affect the goal of the NPS. "The former head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Michał Dworczyk, was the government's plenipotentiary for NPS.

In Poland, the issue of vaccination is completely unnecessarily politicized. In November 2020, the Medical Council at the Prime Minister was established. Based on the analyzes and assessment of the current situation, the Council issued opinions and recommendations. In January 2022, thirteen out of seventeen members of the Medical Council resigned. In the statement, they wrote, inter alia, that the decision was made due to the "lack of impact of the recommendation on the actual activities and the exhaustion of the existing cooperation".

In Poland, 60% of the population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In Portugal, the rate is 88%. In Portugal, the commander, who previously commanded submarines, is responsible for vaccination. The Portuguese anti-vaccine commander keeps briefly: “Coronavirus is the enemy. You don't want to get vaccinated? You are obscurant, I think you broke off the Middle Ages. " In Poland, on the other hand, during the pandemic, anti-vaccine campaigners grew stronger.

mgr farm. Walenty Zajdel