President Moon Jae-in is speaking at a meeting of chief and advisors held at the Blue House on the 22nd. yunhap news
– As the domestic vaccination of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine begins on the 26th, the battle is intensifying over who will get the ‘1 vaccine’. President Moon Jae-in, the Minister of Health and Welfare, and the head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), and other national leadership are facing the stance that it is against fairness because it is not a priority target for vaccination. By what criteria did countries around the world who started vaccination before Korea chose vaccine 1? There are three models of vaccine No. 1 targets by country.
① Priority to high-risk senior citizens
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![Margaret Keenan, 90, who received the Pfizer's Corona 19 vaccine for the first time in the world, is being discharged from Coventry Hospital in the UK on December 9 last year (local time) holding the hands of his daughter Su and grandson Conner. [AFP]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/23/abafe66d-86f2-4826-9927-67e0b53f4b50.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Margaret Keenan, 90, who received the Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine for the first time in the world, is being discharged from Coventry Hospital in the UK on December 9 last year (local time) holding the hands of his daughter Su and grandson Conner. [AFP]
– First of all, this is a case of selecting elderly people who are at high risk for Corona 19 as the first vaccine target. The UK, which started vaccination for the first time in the world on December 8 last year, set Margaret Keenan, who was at the time of her 91st birthday, as the first target. The UK government has selected national health service (NHS) employees who are 80 years of age or older, residents or employees of nursing hospitals, or exposed to high risk or in poor health, as priority candidates. Among them, it was a judgment that reflected the results of research that the elderly are particularly at risk. France and Spain also selected Morissette, 78, in a long-term care facility, and Aracelli Rosario Hidalgo, 96, living in a nursing home, as the first vaccinations last year.
② Front-line medical staff caring for corona 19 patients
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Sandra Lindsey, a nurse at New York Hospital who received the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. AP=Yonhap News
– The second is the case where the forefront medical staff caring for corona19 patients was introduced as the first inoculation. On December 14, last year, in the United States, black nurse Sandra Lindsey, 52, became the first vaccination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended vaccinating corona19 medical staff as the top priority candidates, followed by senior citizens living in long-term care facilities and staff. Lindsay was selected as the first candidate for vaccination because she risked her life to take care of patients when the corona19 pandemic began in New York early last year. However, local media believe that the infection damage of people of color was more serious than whites in the United States, and the fact that blacks were more distrustful of vaccines was reflected in the reason for the selection of candidates for vaccination.
Not only the United States, but also Japan, who had been vaccinated on the 17th, selected Kazuhiro Araki, the director of the Tokyo Medical Center, as the first vaccine. In the case of Japan, 40,000 medical workers, including doctors and nurses, at 100 national medical institutions nationwide are included as priority vaccination targets, and this seems to have been reflected.
③National leader vaccination #1
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![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [AFP]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/23/33db20d5-b417-4c62-8ddc-e61be6af84a6.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [AFP]
– Lastly, the president and other national leaders volunteered for the first vaccine in their country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis are representative. In the case of Prime Minister Netanyahu, he was vaccinated last December at the age of 71. At the time, when a poll resulted that one-third of Israeli citizens were reluctant to vaccination, he said, “I will set an example and persuade the people that vaccination is necessary.” Israel currently ranks first in the world for the number of vaccinations per population. Although it is not the first inoculation in Korea, President Biden of the United States took the lead in vaccination early as an elected state, and Queen Elizabeth of England was also vaccinated with her husband Philip Gong.
The first vaccine in Korea is’AZ’, not Pfizer
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On the afternoon of the 18th, President Moon Jae-in is demonstrating a comparison between a general syringe and a minimum residual type syringe at Poonglim Pharmatech, a production facility for the least residual type (LDS) syringe for corona 19 vaccination in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do. yunhap news
– However, it differs from Korea in that all of the vaccine 1 vaccinators in the above 3 cases received the’Pfizer’ vaccine. Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, AstraZeneca, which will be introduced in Korea for the first time on the 26th, is controversial over its effect on the elderly over the age of 65. The disease agency also raised controversy as it decided to postpone vaccination for the elderly over the age of 65 until additional clinical results in the U.S. were released at the end of March.
President Moon is 68 years old and is not included in the AZ vaccination target, but some argue that there is no safety problem as a result of consulting with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, so President Moon should take the initiative to increase public confidence in the vaccine.
Janssen, the world’s No. 1 vaccinator is the president of South Africa
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![South African President Cyril Lamafossa vaccination against novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [로이터]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/23/50d36982-0f4b-4f85-9938-94c9eb884641.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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South African President Cyril Lamafossa vaccination against novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [로이터]
– In countries where vaccinations other than Pfizer have begun, national leaders are taking the lead in vaccination. President Cyril Lamaposa of South Africa was the first in the world to receive the Janssen vaccine. As the Janssen vaccine has not been approved for emergency use in any other country in the world, it seems to be aimed at calming down the high public anxiety.
In the case of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (59), he became the first vaccination in his country when he brought in China’s Sinovac vaccine. At that time, President Joko Widodo’s vaccination was broadcast live on YouTube, and more than 60,000 people watched it in real time. Turkey’s health minister Fahretin Koza also stepped forward as the first inoculation while introducing the Synovac vaccine. In addition, in France, where the AZ vaccine was introduced, when distrust increased, French Health Minister Olivier Berand gave a public vaccination.
Jeong Ki-seok, a professor of respiratory medicine at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, said, “45% of the people are hesitant to get vaccination, but if you leave the current atmosphere, you may suffer later. If you start a nursing hospital first, you will definitely have to die, and if you are unlucky, problems related to vaccines can also arise,” he said. Eun-mi Chun, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, commented on the point that there may be a controversy over fairness if the social leadership is first met, “I was not the first candidate for vaccination in other countries, but it was a representative response from the public’s request. “I don’t think there are many people to protest just because some of the social leaders are right first.”
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