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New Crown Vaccine | Cai Jian: As a doctor, government incentives to support mass vaccination are complicated

2021-05-11T05:56:43.314Z


The President of the Medical Association, Cai Jian, stated in the "Letter to Hong Kong" program of RTHK today (9th) that the Hong Kong government has devised different measures to lure citizens to vaccinate, but the plan is relatively complicated and still fails to encourage a large number of citizens to vaccinate. he


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Written by: Wang Jieen

2021-05-09 10:11

The last update date: 2021-05-09 10:17

The President of the Medical Association, Cai Jian, stated in the "Letter to Hong Kong" program of RTHK today (9th) that the Hong Kong government has devised different measures to lure citizens to vaccinate, but the plan is relatively complicated and still fails to encourage a large number of citizens to vaccinate.

He also said that the level of public trust in the authorities can determine whether the public is willing to be vaccinated. However, the government has set up different expert groups and still has not been able to convince the public to get the vaccine.

He said that as a doctor, he supports mass vaccination to achieve herd immunity, and emphasized that if the border prevention and control are insufficient, the variant new coronavirus will still become a threat.

Cai Jian said that they support mass vaccination to create herd immunity, so that life and economy can return to normal.

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Cai Jian pointed out that only when 70% of the population has been vaccinated can herd immunity be produced.

However, with the exception of Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, where the vaccination rate reached 43% to 62.4%, only 8% of the global population received at least one dose of the vaccine, of which only 7.1% in India and 11.1% in Brazil.

As for Hong Kong, only 12.7% of the population has received at least one dose.

Complex plans fail to encourage vaccination

Cai Jian said that the trust of the authority is an issue which dictates whether the citizens will want to get vaccinated or not.

He said that even if the government has set up different expert groups, it is still not enough to convince the public to get vaccinated. Although the government has devised different measures to lure the public to get vaccinated, for example, restaurants can have multiple people at the same table and reduce quarantine time. It is complicated and still fails to encourage a large number of citizens to vaccinate.

▼See the details of the scheduled vaccination and side effects of Kexing and BioNTech in the three pictures▼

Border prevention and control are equally important

Cai said that as a doctor, the Medical Association supports large-scale vaccination to create herd immunity, so that life and economy can return to normal, and explain to patients based on scientific data and will set an example.

However, he emphasized that even if there is sufficient herd immunity, if border prevention and control are insufficient, the mutant virus will still become a threat.

In addition, the first Indian man (#11643) and his Filipino girlfriend (#11672) who were diagnosed with the mutant virus in the community reported their whereabouts in a suspected "toothpaste" manner. Both have been arrested.

Cai Jian believes that if the diagnosed person does not give a frank account of his whereabouts, it will be difficult for the authorities to trace other close contacts and prevent another wave of outbreaks. Therefore, such frauds must be dealt with.

Zhang Jianzong said the progress of the vaccine was not as expected

Covid-19 vaccine | 16 people were sent to hospital after injection on Friday, two men in their 20s lost consciousness after the first injection

Two more people were suspected of dying after being vaccinated. There is no evidence that the vaccine was caused by the injection 2 and 7 days before their death.

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