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Let's summarize the remaining questions with Cho Dong-chan, a medical reporter.



Q. Is booster vaccination a preventative measure against death?



[Cho Dong-chan / medical reporter (specialist): Yes, more than 95% of the COVID-19 deaths this month are elderly people in their 60s. Of these, about 40% have been vaccinated, and 60% have not been vaccinated. It doesn't seem like much of a difference, but it isn't. Only 1 in 10 people over the age of 60 did not complete the vaccination, and if you factor this in, it is calculated that completing the vaccination currently lowers the risk of death by 80%. However, it is true that the mortality prevention rate is slightly lower than the initial one. That's why you're in a hurry to get booster shots.]



Q. What's the emergency room situation?



[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): Yes, I will see the details of the 119 paramedic report. It is a cardiac arrest patient, who could not go to the nearest hospital and went to a hospital 20 km away, but eventually the patient died.



Why is there no choice but to take a picture of the situation at the time by the ambulance and send it to me. As you can see, all university hospital emergency rooms in the metropolitan area were saturated. Because there are so many patients with severe cases of Corona, the waiting time in the emergency room is getting longer, so other emergency patients have nowhere to go. We must prepare emergency measures quickly.]



Q. Omicron, has it already spread?



[Cho Dong-chan/Medical Reporter (specialist): Omicron mutations have not yet been discovered in the United States, but Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institutes of Health, said that Omicron seems to have already entered the United States, but he has not yet discovered it.

British scholars also attribute the recent surge in re-infection and breakthrough infection in their country to microns.

I see that Israel has already closed the borders of all countries, and we should expand the scope of surveillance a little bit.]



Q. Can a person infected with Omicron be confirmed with Corona?



[Cho Dong-chan/medical reporter (specialist): Korea's PCR method is almost the same as that of the US and UK, but it is possible to diagnose a patient infected with Omicron mutation as a corona patient, even if it is Omicron.

The PCR method used in Hong Kong is a little different, so it can be guessed by delaying the ohmic mutation, but to know for sure, you need to perform a separate genetic analysis.]