Thu Oct 28, 2021 – 9:43 pm EDT
TOLEDO, Brazil (LifeSiteNews) – A Brazilian city planning to study Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot by vaccinating its entire population has been conducting “active searches” of the unvaccinated in an effort to get jabs in the arms of every resident age 12 and older.
The city of Toledo agreed this summer to test the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Toledo, located in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil, has a population of around 143,000.
“The initiative is the first and only of its kind to be undertaken in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company in a developing country,” Pfizer said in a statement. The study, which will track participants for one year to evaluate vaccine protection and emergence of variants, seeks to investigate COVID transmission in a “real-life scenario,” Pfizer said.
Local health officials, Brazil’s national vaccine program, the Federal University of Paraná, and a Brazilian hospital will conduct the study, Reuters reported.
While the trial is voluntary, tactics employed by the city have raised concerns for residents’ privacy and medical freedom.
By the time Pfizer announced the Toledo experiment three weeks ago, fully 98 percent of eligible individuals had been vaccinated with their first dose of a COVID-19 shot. In order to reach 100 percent vaccine coverage, Toledo began conducting an “active search”
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