BOTUCATU,
The task forces set up 45 vaccination points at voting sites in Botucatu and people were directed to get their shots at their normal election center. Those showing up for shots also were separated by age groups.
The first doses of the day was administered by
“In addition to vaccination, encourage non-pharmacological measures such as wearing masks and social distancing,” he said.
“It’s absolutely vital for all of us across the world that we have as much data as possible, and the research that is being done in Botucatu for the next months is going to be really vital for that scientific sharing and the increase of knowledge in the world about how the
At 36, commercial representative Ana Lobardela and her husband, restorer Bernardo Piragda, 37, were emotional about being immunized now. She made sure to record the moment she received the first dose.
“Knowing that for my age group it was going to take a long time to take it and having elderly people in my family, I have no words to describe it,” Lobardela told AP.
The research project hopes to vaccinate 80,000 of Botucatu's 149,000 residents to test the effectiveness of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine as well as study people's behavior related to the pandemic. The study is expected to last about eight months, including the application of the second
Similar research is being done by the
Nísia Trindade, a researcher at the
“With this research we will see the issue of behavior in the face of the variants, the transmission, and the effectiveness in the health system," she said.
According to data from the
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