March 10, 2021 #News of Chile in the World

How Chile built one of the world's most successful vaccination campaigns

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The Latin American country bet big on vaccines and relied on a strong primary health care network. Now, a quarter of the country has had at least one shot.

Dr. Joxelin Flores Taborda, who is based in Santiago, Chile, got her second dose of Coronavac last week. She had a little headache afterward. But "a good headache," she called it. "I was thinking, 'The vaccine is doing something inside me.'"

Flores is a pediatrician who specializes in pulmonology. She and her colleagues who work in health care were among the first to receive vaccines at the start of Chile's Covid-19 vaccination campaign in early February.

Since then, Chile has administered about 5 million vaccine dosesgiving at least one shot to nearly a quarter of its population of around 19 million. The country's vaccination campaign has far outpaced the rest of Latin America and much of the world. Chile has set a goal of delivering at least one dose to 15 million people by the end of June.

Click here to read this news piece: https://www.vox.com/22309620/chile-covid-19-vaccination-campaign

 

 

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