The new variant virus strain Omicron is coming fiercely, and the proportion of overseas infants and young children infections has increased.
The chairman of the Hong Kong Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Liu Yulong, expressed the hope that infants and primary school students between the ages of 3 and 11 can be vaccinated with Kexing vaccine in January next year. The committee will propose that the vaccine is still very effective in preventing severe illness.
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Liu Yulong said on the "Tao Zhi Dao" of Xincheng Finance Channel that the proportion of overseas infants and young children infections is on the rise, mainly because they have not been vaccinated, and "Omicron's incidents in South Africa and Europe and the United States will definitely happen in Asia... ( Okay) I deceive myself to say that I will not enter, and I will enter only a speed system." The only preparation is to give them an injection in January next year, which will be proposed in the Joint Science Committee of the Department of Health at the end of this month.
He also shared data from South Africa. He mentioned that the ratio of people who have been vaccinated to those who have not been vaccinated is 1:10. Although vaccination may not prevent infection, it still effectively prevents severe illness.
There are more than 30 mutations in the S protein of Omicron. Liu Yulong said that most of the mutations may affect antibody levels, but the vaccine stimulates T cells in the body to prevent severe illness. It only remembers a small amount of vaccine amino acids. There is a limit, so the T cell is recorded as a serious disease... the public don't think Omicron is slamming, it is better to not get an injection" because people who have not been injected have a higher chance of becoming severely ill than those who have been injected.
Hong Kong adopts a zero-clearing strategy. Liu Yulong emphasized that it is to take the opportunity to push up the vaccination rate, otherwise it will cost human lives to switch rashly. On the contrary, countries that coexist with the virus will easily advance and retreat. It's better to make it clear at the beginning." He criticized the United States and other places for overreacting to South Africa, which was the first to discover Omicron, and imposed an embargo that made local reagents insufficient. Instead, it punished the highly transparent scientific team.
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