Firmly grasp the initiative to optimize prevention and control strategy and receive three doses of vaccines to reduce the risk of death by 9.3 times.

CCTV News: In order to further speed up the vaccination of the elderly against the new crown virus, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism recently issued the “Work Plan for Strengthening the Vaccination of the New Crown Virus of the Elderly “. Zheng Zhongwei, vaccine R&D team leader of the scientific research group, said that to date, the first-dose vaccination rate for people over the age of 60 has exceeded 90%, but there are still 28 million people who have not received their first dose of vaccine and about 37 million people who have not received their first dose of vaccine Complete booster vaccination.

Zheng Zhongwei, head of the vaccine research and development working group of the Joint Defense and Supervision Joint Mechanism of the State Council: if the elderly over the age of 80 do not receive a vaccine injection, the risk of death is about 14.7%. 7.16%, and with three doses of the vaccine the risk of death drops to 1.5%. Thus, compared with no vaccination, the risk of death was reduced 9.3-fold after receiving three doses of the vaccine. We call on elderly people over the age of 80 to speed up vaccination, especially booster vaccination. The rigorous prevention and control of the past two years has actually bought valuable vaccination time. Accelerating the vaccination of the elderly also means taking the initiative to optimize prevention and control strategies firmly in hand.