key: cord-0739806-vhmsxa1x authors: Boschiero, Matheus Negri; Palamim, Camila Vantini Capasso; Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima title: COVID-19 Vaccination on Brazil and the Crocodile Side-effect date: 2021-03-19 journal: Ethics Med Public Health DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100654 sha: 00365ce0f68fab312428f3e991771f6c6a8a8747 doc_id: 739806 cord_uid: vhmsxa1x nan to purchase such drugs. The Executive spent 1.8 billion of real to purchase food for the government, including millions of reals to acquired chewing gum and condensed milk, lobster, champagne, seafood and others. Why not use that money to purchase vaccines, oxygen, respirators and diagnostic tests? Brazilian government and ANVISA wasted time to authorize the vaccines while people died. Them, we do not need political games; we need to save lives. Finally, Brazil deserved to be categorised as one of the worst countries to manage the COVID-19 pandemic as demonstrated by the COVID-19 performance index elaborated from Lowy Institute. The UK has approved a COVID vaccine -here's what scientists now want to know Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Phase I/II study of COVID-19 RNA vaccine BNT162b1 in adults COVID-19) Vaccinations. 2021. Accessed on 24 Deconstructing Pandemic Response