The influenza 2020 campaign among the coronavirus pandemic in the state of Amazonas: an experience report

Abstract

Objective: Socializing an experiment carried out during a 2020 flu campaign amid a Coronavirus pandemic in the State of Amazonas. Experience report: This is an experience report on the actions that took place in the influenza campaign in Amazonas in 2020, having created strategies for vaccination to occur in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the difficulties and solutions found for the improvement of vaccination coverage, such as the quantity of vaccines available in time for all municipalities, facing distances and reduced transport. The constant dissemination of campaign information through social media, where the precarious access to the internet is mainly inland. Final considerations: Difficulty with receiving and sending immunobiologicals and with inputs in time for each phase and target group, technological support regarding information and data maintenance on the campaign website, health professionals with COVID-19, social isolation, many people were afraid to go to the vaccination rooms, being a big challenge for the municipalities.