It is expected that the domestic new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine 1 vaccination will come from staff at nursing hospitals and facilities. Vaccinations for the elderly aged 65 and over in nursing hospitals, which were ranked first in vaccinations at first, will be pushed to the second quarter, and will only be available in April.
Eunkyung Jung “Confirmed after additional clinical confirmation”
Pfizer vaccination next month for corona medical staff
– The government announced on the 15th that the AstraZeneca vaccination will begin on about 270,000 people under the age of 65, including those in nursing hospitals, from the 26th through the’Corona 19 Vaccination February-March Implementation Plan’. Next, the vaccination will be expanded to medical staff at large hospitals, Corona 19 response personnel, and Corona 19 treatment medical staff, and the first vaccination of about 760,000 people will be completed by March.
In a briefing on the day, Eun-kyung Jung, head of the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team (Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) said, “First of all, we will begin vaccination against the AstraZeneca vaccine for hospitalized, residents, and workers under the age of 65 in group facilities for the elderly.” It was decided after review and deliberation by the Vaccination Review Committee.”
Accordingly, from the 26th, 272,131 people, or 42% of the 64,8855 residents and workers in nursing hospitals, facilities, mental hospitals, mental care and rehabilitation facilities, will start vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine. As the vaccination was restricted to those under the age of 65, a significant number of vaccinations (228,000, about 84%) are workers. The 1st vaccination is finished by the following month, and the 2nd vaccination starts from April to May.
About 37,700 elderly people aged 65 and older in nursing hospitals are expected to be vaccinated only in the second quarter. As controversy about the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the elderly rose up, it was decided to postpone vaccination until further data were confirmed.
Nursing facility under 65 years old, etc. AZ vaccine first vaccination 760,000 by March, 500,000 less than the original announcement
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chung Eun-kyung is taking off her mask before the announcement of the plan to implement the corona 19 vaccination in February and March at the Chungju Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the afternoon of the 15th. [뉴시스]
– “For those over 65 years old, we plan to confirm additional clinical information on the effectiveness of the vaccine (expected at the end of March), and then finalize the vaccination plan after deliberation by the Vaccination Specialist Committee.”
The promotion team said that it took into account the fact that if the vaccination for the elderly, which is controversial in effect, is carried out as scheduled, there is a problem in reliability and the inoculation rate may drop.
353,039 medical staff including doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, pharmacists, etc. in high-risk medical institutions such as general hospitals and hospitals with many severely ill patients, and 78513 first responders to Corona 19, including 119 paramedics, epidemiological investigators, and quarantine officers. They will be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine starting March 8 and March 22, respectively.
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Graphic of initial vaccination plan by major target = Reporter Kim Joo-won [email protected]
– As soon as 60,000 Pfizer vaccines introduced through’CoVacs Facility’, a global vaccine co-purchase agreement, are also available, it will be administered to 54729 medical staff dedicated to the treatment of Corona 19 at central and regional vaccination centers during next month. As a result, the authorities aim to finish the first vaccination with AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines to about 760,000 people by the first quarter. It was about 500,000 fewer than the 1.3 million when it was originally announced at the end of last month.
The government has announced that it will start vaccinations for the elderly in nursing homes within two quarters, but if additional clinical information is not available by the end of March as expected, vaccinations for the elderly may continue without a promise. If the AstraZeneca vaccine is not available, the elderly in nursing hospitals have to receive other vaccines, but the specific supply schedule of Janssen, Modena, and NovaVax vaccines that can be introduced in the second quarter is still undecided. The goal of vaccination for the elderly is to protect at-risk groups by lowering the mortality rate, but critics say that it is a decision that does not fit this strategy.
Jeong Jae-hoon, a professor of preventive medicine at Gachon University’s Gil Hospital, said, “In the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the evidence for its effectiveness is lacking, and it is not a safety issue, but rather it encourages distrust.” I need a quick vaccination, but it could be a problem.”
Kim Mo-ran, a professor of preventive medicine at the Graduate School of National Cancer Center, said, “It is possible to prevent infections caused by workers to some extent, but there is still a risk of infecting residents and spreading them in the facility.”
◆Korea is likely to be the last country in the OECD=Korea is expected to be the last inoculation among 37 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). According to the international statistics website’Our World in Data’ and foreign media, among OECD countries, only five countries, including Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Colombia, have not yet started vaccinating COVID-19. Among them, vaccination will begin on the 17th in Japan, on the 20th in New Zealand and Colombia, and on the 22nd in Australia. Korea is scheduled to start vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine on the 26th, so it will be the latest in the OECD countries.
Reporters Hwang Soo-yeon, Lee Woo-rim, and Lim Sun-young [email protected]
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