Chinanews Client Beijing, October 11 (Reporter Zhang Ni) Since September, influenza vaccination work has been launched in many places across the country. After the National Day holiday, vaccination points in Beijing and other places have successively ushered in the peak of vaccination.
However, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, people's willingness to receive influenza vaccines has increased this year, and the phenomenon of "second light" in many places has appeared.
Many netizens even sighed: booking a flu vaccine is comparable to grabbing tickets during the Spring Festival.
Beijing citizens received flu vaccine at community health service centers.
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Vaccination point source "second light" to fight flu vaccine quickly
On the 9th, the first day of work after the holiday, Ms. Wang from Beijing specially came to the Dahongmen Community Health Service Center in Fengtai District near her home to get an adult influenza vaccine.
She told reporters that it is not easy to get a vaccine this year.
"Because there are children in the family, I used to get the flu vaccine every year, but I didn't have to fight for numbers in the past, but this year I have to work hard. The morning numbers of community hospitals are almost all in the'second light'."
Ms. Wang said that this year, it is obvious that there are more people around who want to get a flu shot.
Because of the special reasons of the epidemic, I also prepared in advance, grabbed a source on the Internet, and rushed to get the flu vaccine from the unit at noon.
For her family with children, getting a flu shot this year is an extra layer of protection.
The reporter saw at the Dahongmen Community Health Service Center that citizens who were vaccinated against adult influenza were in an endless stream. Many of them were sent out by the whole family. Citizen Ms. Li was one of them.
“I’ve been following the information about the flu vaccine launch since September. I was afraid that public hospitals would not be able to schedule it. I consulted the two private hospitals first. However, one of them told me that it would be scheduled until November at the earliest, and the other said that they would book first. , When you can sign up, you have to wait for notification."
With the mentality of giving it a try, Ms. Li tried to make an appointment for the vaccine at the community hospital. She said that she was able to get the number for the whole family by staying with her mobile phone at the time when the number was assigned.
And this phenomenon does not only occur at one vaccination site.
In Haidian District, Beijing, a staff member of the Health Care Department of Zhongguancun Hospital said that the number of adult influenza vaccine appointments in the hospital this year far exceeded that of previous years. If people in the jurisdiction want to get a vaccine, they can only wait to make an appointment every day when the number is released by the system. This situation did not exist in previous years.
"From the start of the vaccine on September 25 to now, we have vaccinated nearly 100 times for children under 3 years old, and more than 200 times for adults. This number is far higher than previous years." Zhang, Chief of the Health Care Section of the Dahongmen Community Health Service Center in Fengtai District Qing introduced in an interview with reporters.
Zhang Qing said that the community health service center's adult influenza vaccination volume last year was about 800 doses, but judging by the number of appointments this year and the population of the jurisdiction, the vaccination volume this year is expected to double last year.
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With the addition of vaccination points and the increase of supply by enterprises, the vaccine is on the way!
In August of this year, officials of the World Health Organization publicly stated that due to the indistinguishability of the symptoms of new coronary pneumonia and influenza, coupled with limited medical resources, countries should increase the vaccination rate of influenza vaccination, fight against influenza, and focus on fighting the epidemic.
Vaccine expert Tao Lina also emphasized in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that in the autumn and winter of this year, influenza vaccination is important because of two factors: First, from the perspective of the overall epidemic control, if the patient has received the influenza vaccine If fever occurs again, flu factors can be less considered and interference with the judgment of the epidemic can be reduced. Second, there is evidence that if a dual infection of new coronary pneumonia and influenza occurs, the symptoms will get worse.
Obviously, entering the autumn and winter this year, the people's demand for influenza vaccine has increased sharply. In the face of the problem of "a single shot is hard to find," various departments are also actively taking measures to ease the shortage of vaccine supply.
At the national level, at the end of September, the Comprehensive Team of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic issued the 2020 version of the national influenza prevention and control work plan.
Among them, it has been clearly stated that it is necessary to provide convenient services to the people through measures such as increasing grassroots influenza vaccination points, starting vaccination early, extending the vaccination cycle, and increasing daily service hours.
This year, all regions have adjusted the supply of vaccines.
Take Beijing as an example. This year all vaccination work will be scheduled for vaccination. In order to facilitate citizens' vaccination, Beijing has set up 446 free influenza vaccination sites and 480 self-funded influenza vaccination sites in medical and health institutions.
In addition, Beijing’s procurement of free influenza vaccines this year has increased by 21% compared to 2019, and the purchase of self-funded vaccines is 2.1 times the number of people vaccinated last year.
In Hubei, the planned supply of influenza vaccines in Hubei Province has increased from an average of more than 600,000 in the past three years to more than 3 million this year.
"Our daily appointment number source has more than doubled compared to the past, and we have also made plans in advance. This year's vaccine collection is about twice as high as last year. The amount of vaccine collection for students and the elderly who are free of charge is also Increased by about one-third." Zhang Qing told reporters.
She explained that because the vaccines are arriving one after another, they need to apply for one phase and one phase, so people need to wait patiently.
On the supply side, in the face of this year's flu season, major vaccine companies are also working hard and working overtime to produce.
Xie Junmin, Secretary of the Board of Hualan Biology, recently stated that the company is working overtime to produce influenza vaccines to meet the current shortage in various regions.
According to forecasts, the company's production of trivalent influenza vaccines is nearly 3 million, and the production of quadrivalent influenza vaccines has increased from the planned 16 million to 20 million.
The relevant person in charge of Kexing Biotechnology introduced that as of the end of September this year, the number of batches of the company's trivalent influenza vaccine has exceeded 2.95 million, and the number of batches of quadrivalent influenza vaccine has exceeded 960,000.
Sinopharm China Biotech disclosed that after learning of the recommended strains of influenza vaccine for the new year announced by the World Health Organization, it quickly started the production of split influenza virus vaccines in response to the arrival of the influenza season.
Data as of the end of September showed that the number of batches of trivalent influenza vaccines issued this year exceeded 2.05 million, and the number of batches of quadrivalent influenza vaccines exceeded 3.08 million.
Data map: Free influenza vaccination for people over 65 years old from Tuoyun Ranch, Third Division of Xinjiang Corps.
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Vaccines do not need to be vaccinated together, and protection during the epidemic season is more important!
Although the demand for influenza vaccination has increased this year, the local disease control departments have also issued a reminder to the public: there is no need to get together for vaccination!
Previously, the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the population’s willingness to vaccinate influenza has increased this year and the peak of inoculation has been advanced. It is expected that the supply of influenza vaccine will reach its peak from October this year to January 2021.
At the same time, the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control reminded the general public not to get together for vaccination. Vaccinations are available throughout the epidemic season. Vaccinations can be booked through the Internet or telephone. All community health service centers, township health centers and other vaccination units can provide vaccination services.
Experts from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention also said that influenza vaccine is a non-immunization program vaccine, which is self-financed and voluntarily inoculated. It is recommended that citizens with influenza vaccination plan call the nearest vaccination clinic for timely consultation, objective treatment, and orderly vaccination.
In addition, experts emphasized that when vaccines are in short supply, citizens who have not been vaccinated need not panic. Maintaining good personal hygiene is an effective way to prevent respiratory infectious diseases.
The public can prevent influenza virus infection by washing hands frequently, ventilating more, wearing masks, visiting places where people gather less, and strengthening physical exercise in autumn and winter, and strengthening physical fitness.
In order to prevent the public from crowding together to go to the hospital for vaccination and causing people to gather, each vaccination point has also adopted the method of appointment by time.
"At present, we regard every half an hour as a time slot, and only put 7 to 8 sources in the same time slot, so that the public can go to the hospital in batches and orderly."
Zhang Qing told reporters that in order to reduce the risk of the spread of the epidemic, the community health service center has strictly controlled the flow of people at each time period.
She also reminded the public that there is no need to panic due to the lack of an appointment for a flu vaccine in a short period of time. Personal protection should be done at ordinary times and an orderly appointment can be made.
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