Omicron broke out in the community.
Liu Yulong, chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases, said on the RTHK program "Hong Kong Home Letter" this morning (15th) that he hopes that around the Lunar New Year, another 300,000 to 70-year-olds will be vaccinated for the first time. Risk of large-scale community spread of Omicron in the coming weeks.
Regarding the booster, Liu Yulong pointed out that because Kexing needs three injections to complete the basic vaccination, but believes that "it is impossible to use the booster to prevent infection in a sustainable manner", and the society must learn to focus on preventing severe deaths before going out of the pandemic direction The premise of coexisting with the virus is to increase the vaccination rate to the whole population and reduce the mortality rate to less than one thousandth.
Liu Yulong said that he understands the concerns of the elderly who are reluctant to get vaccinated, such as worrying about side effects and not going out, but Omicron is spreading in the community, and the elderly are worried that the infection needs to be admitted to the hospital or affect their young grandchildren. Motivation for the elderly to get vaccinated.”
Expect more 300,000 seniors over 70 to get injections around the Lunar New Year
Liu pointed out that it is necessary to explain the main functions of the vaccine patiently. In order to prevent severe illness and death, no one of the vaccines that citizens receive will be effective in preventing infection with Omicron. However, both vaccines can trigger T-cell responses and greatly reduce severe illness and death. Citizens are free to choose which vaccine to receive.
At present, the elderly over the age of 70 have not yet received the first injection. If they are unfortunately infected, the chance of serious illness and death is ten or twenty times higher than that of the elderly who have been vaccinated.
Liu Yulong hopes that around the Lunar New Year, another 300,000 to 70-year-olds will be vaccinated for the first dose to deal with the risk of large-scale spread of Omicron in the community in the coming weeks.
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Universal vaccination is conditionally converted to "endemic diseases"
As for the booster, Liu Yulong pointed out that it still depends on which vaccine citizens are vaccinated. Because the concentration of antibodies induced by Sinovac is relatively low, the basic vaccination is not completed until three injections are taken.
If the third dose of Fubitai is given, the antibodies that prevent Omicron infection have been reduced to a level that cannot prevent infection in two or three months.
Liu believes that the society must learn to focus on preventing severe deaths, and that is the way out of the pandemic. The premise of coexisting with the virus is to increase the vaccination rate to the whole population, so as to reduce the mortality rate of new coronary pneumonia from the original two percentage points to Below 1 in 1,000, "This way, the medical system will not be overwhelmed, and social and economic activities will have a chance to return to normal. Hong Kong has the conditions to turn the new crown pneumonia from a pandemic to an endemic disease."
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Liu Yulong also mentioned that more than 80% of people in Africa have not yet received the first shot, so the global village will not be out of the pandemic. Another variant of the new coronavirus will appear in Africa, which may not only be more infectious than Omicron, but also more infectious. It is highly pathogenic, describing that "Omicron is a chance for us to end the pandemic", so it should help Africa get vaccinated as soon as possible, "We should not plan for the fourth vaccination, three meals a day are enough, and Africans should be allowed to get vaccinated as soon as possible. People eat their first and second meals.”
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