In Korea, it is expected that AstraZeneca will be vaccinated the most in the first half. Vaccinations for seniors over 65 are now on hold. There are not enough clinical data, but the UK recently released the results of actually vaccinating the elderly with the AstraZeneca vaccine and said the effectiveness was statistically proven.
Dong-chan Cho is a medical reporter.
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The Corona 19 vaccine is loaded onto a military vehicle and transferred to a hospital dedicated to respiratory organs in Korea.
The hospital’s vaccination consent rate is 99%, and the vaccination is progressing smoothly, but workers over 65 years of age were excluded.
This is because of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has withheld the vaccine, saying AstraZeneca vaccine is effective and safe for the elderly.
[정은경/질병관리청장 (지난달 15일) : 65세 이상에서도 백신의 안전성은 이미 확인이 되었고 다만 통계적으로 이러한 효과를 입증할 만한 그런 자료를 도출하기가 어려웠습니다.]
By the way, the British government has proven statistical significance.
This is the first actual vaccination report of the AstraZeneca vaccine released by the UK health authorities.
156,000 people aged 70 and older participated, which is the largest ever during a corona vaccine study.
If 70 years of age or older received one AstraZeneca vaccine, the preventive effect after 35 days was 73%, which was higher than 61% of the Pfizer’s one-time vaccination.
British health officials predicted that two doses would be more effective and concluded that AstraZeneca and Pfizer were both effective.
Immediately after this announcement, European countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Belgium successively lifted the ban on vaccinations over the age of 65.
This hastily changed the guidelines because the most dangerous targets for COVID-19 are elderly people aged 65 or older.
As the proportion of people over 65 years old among the domestic Corona 19 deaths exceeds 90%, we need to urgently review whether the elderly will be vaccinated.
(Video editing: Kim Sun-tak, VJ: Shin So-young)
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