When will you have to get vaccinated against covid-19? This calculator gives you a date based on the government plan

It includes a classification by priority groups and stages in which they will receive the antidote that will immunize against the covid-19 disease. The health personnel and those of the social health centers, as well as the residents of the same, belong to the first group, which began to receive the injection since last December 27. But, when will it be our turn to vaccinate the rest of the citizens? Particle Physics and Medicine students, Álvaro Díez Gepe and Dominika Miszewska, respectively, have built a calculator that answers this question.

The is programmed based on data from the Government’s vaccination plan, with its detailed list of social groups and immunization priorities, and its own vaccination rate projections throughout this year.

From a simple interface supported by , a website that offers programmed calculators for practically any question -from culinary matters to the field of health-, the user will only have to answer a series of questions that will place them in a social group. Combined with the Government’s estimates, the result it offers is an approximate date on the vaccination schedule and an estimate of the number of people ahead of it in the ‘queue’ for covid-19 immunization.

Thus, for example, the Díez Gepe y Miszewska calculator will need to know your age, your region of residence, if you have diseases that can interact with the covid, your type of work and any special condition, such as pregnancy. In the case of a 39-year-old woman, resident in Madrid, without specific ailments and working in an open environment, her vaccination shift is between the month of June of this year and the last day of 2021, with a previous ‘queue’ of between 1,845,724 and 4,089,738 people to be vaccinated beforehand.

In Spain, the vaccination campaign is still completing the first stage, which includes health personnel and social health centers and residents in these centers. The Ministry of Health has reported this Friday that the next subgroup to be vaccinated will include those over 80 years of age. This will be done as soon as vaccine doses are available, and following the same guidelines developed so far: an injection of a second dose at 21 days, in the case of Pfizer’s antidote; and at 28, if the vaccine is Moderna’s.

The justification for the prioritization of groups designed by the Government is based on the principles of necessity, equity and reciprocity. It is advisable to vaccinate the people who are most exposed to the risk of getting sick (health and socio-sanitary most exposed) and those who are most hospitalized and die. As a reminder, we add the detailed list of the priority groups of the Government’s vaccination plan, which are subsequently grouped into three stages.

-Health and socio-sanitary personnel. Also included are people who provide care for vulnerable people in their homes.

-People residing in centers for the elderly.

-General population older than 64 years.

-People with great dependency.

-People with risk conditions.

-People who live or work in communities or closed environments.

-People belonging to vulnerable populations due to their socioeconomic situation.

-People with essential jobs.

-Staff.

-Children population.

-Adolescent and young population (over 16 years of age).

-Adult population.

-Population of high-incidence areas and/or outbreak situations.

-Pregnant women and mothers who provide natural lactation.

-Seropositive population to SARS-CoV-2.