Show Notes
A radio confession: a prominent journalist says a private secretary redirected seventy Sputnik V doses into the Ministry of Health - who ordered it?
The private secretary's message that redirected seventy doses
In this episode, we follow how a single phone call and a message moved scarce vaccine doses inside Argentina's Ministry of Health during February 2021. The episode lays out the people, the protocol, and the immediate fallout that raised the question: who was making the calls?
Date: February 19, 2021 Person: Horacio Verbitsky Person: Ginés González García Vaccine: Sputnik V Event: Seventy off-protocol doses administered
- A radio broadcast in the morning of February 19, 2021, in which Horacio Verbitsky recounts calling the Health Minister and receiving a vaccination at the Ministry after a message from the minister’s private secretary. - Argentina had a written prioritization protocol in February 2021: health workers first, then people over sixty, then high-risk patients, while vaccine supply of Sputnik V arrived in limited batches. - Earlier anomalies included a report of 400 doses disappearing and later surfacing at Olavarría Oncology Hospital, and Beatriz Sarlo saying she had been offered an off-protocol dose. - The incoming minister confirmed that seventy doses had been administered outside the written protocol inside the Ministry of Health building. - Within hours of the radio confession, the count of at least seventy names linked to off-protocol vaccinations became public and triggered criminal and political reactions.
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