After confirmation of the pharmaceutical AstraZeneca that your vaccine has side effects such as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), Honduras has not presented this type of incidents.
Carlos Umañadoctor and deputy of the Salvador Party of Honduras (PSH), indicated that there has not been an increase in thromboses in the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS). “There is only one vaccine AstraZenecathe side effects were a warning, it is called risk benefit, we already knew that,” said the doctor.
This vaccine was one of the first to be acquired in the country by the Social Security since 2021, when the population began to be immunized against the covid-19.
According to official data from the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), from 2021 to 2023, the authorities received 2,611,789 doses from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, some through purchase and others by donation.
This vaccine was one of the first to enter Honduran territory to immunize the vulnerable priority population. The PAI authorities do not have an exact figure of how many Hondurans received the AstraZeneca vaccine, but it is estimated that around 800,000 people were immunized with the doses acquired.
In the world
In most European countries, the use of the vaccine was limited to those over 60-65 years of age, according to the Mundo.es portal.
Scientists for the first time identified a link between the vaccine and a new disease called thrombocytopenia and vaccine-induced immune thromboses (VITT) already in March 2021, shortly after the launch of the covid-19 vaccine.
