News 1+1丨How to "snap time" for the national new crown vaccination?

  March 31st was a full week after the National Health Commission launched the daily report system for my country's new crown vaccination.

As of March 30, 2021, 114 million doses have been vaccinated in my country.

From the perspective of the increase rate, there is an increase of 3 to 4 million doses per day from the previous day, with a peak increase of about 6 million doses.

  In terms of vaccination, many vaccination sites in Beijing have successively opened night services to meet the needs of different groups of people; Wuhan has launched mobile vaccination vehicles to fully open up the "last mile of vaccination work"; Shanghai has launched the use of elderly people aged 60 and above. Make an appointment for new crown vaccination for foreigners in Shanghai.

How to promote vaccination for all people in an orderly and rapid manner?

Listen to the interpretation of Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the WHO Vaccine R&D Committee.

Beijing Daxing's new crown vaccination coverage rate reaches 80%, what do you think?

Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the World Health Organization's Vaccine Research and Development Committee:

This means that the new crown immune barrier has been initially established in Beijing's Daxing District, and there is no possibility of a new crown virus epidemic in this place.

It should be said that this is a bright spot in our nationwide vaccination campaign.

However, if the vaccination rate fails to keep up in other places, loopholes will appear. So this is why we started orderly immunization for the entire population after covering the vaccination of high-risk occupational groups last year.

How do you look at the rate of domestic new crown vaccine vaccination in the past week?

  Data show that in the past week, the daily increase in the number of new crown vaccines is about 3 million to 6 million.

Shao Yiming,

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researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and an adviser to the World Health Organization's Vaccine Research and Development Committee:

Any large-scale operation must have a hot spot, and gradually test various systems.

The current (vaccination) rate is not low. We can see that the United States is struggling to complete the universal vaccination before the National Day, and the highest vaccination rate is more than 3 million a day.

In the past week, the number of newly-increased new crown vaccination in my country has reached three or four million, with the highest number being more than 6 million per day. After this stage of testing, with the further release of vaccine production capacity, we have reached a little bit of 10 million vaccination per day. There are no problems.

Can vaccine production capacity keep up with the growth rate of inoculation doses?

Shao Yiming, researcher of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and consultant of the World Health Organization's Vaccine Research and Development Committee:

Now we are advancing vaccination according to the principle of "successfully, step by step, highlighting the key points, and ensuring safety".

It should be said that our production capacity is under double pressure. In addition to managing 1.4 billion people, our vaccines in China are also a global public product, and we must help the people of the world, especially to contribute to the prevention and control of developing countries.

Our country's planned production capacity for vaccines at the end of the year may reach 5 billion doses.

What can Ruili's new coronavirus vaccine do for the prevention and control of the epidemic?

  Starting from April 1, 4 border counties and cities in Yunnan, including Ruili City, will start the new crown vaccination work in an all-round way.

Does this mean that in terms of epidemic prevention and control, vaccines have become a conventional "weapon" when we respond to the outbreak?

Shao Yiming, researcher of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and consultant of the World Health Organization's Vaccine Research and Development Committee:

Due to political turbulence in the external environment, the entire prevention and control work has basically stagnated. With the cross-border movement of unstable people, it has brought great prevention and control pressure to the border provinces. .

When we did not have a vaccine, we could only rely on traditional public health measures to control the epidemic. Now, in addition to the conventional prevention and control measures, we have vaccines, plus the “circular vaccination” of vaccines. Promote universal vaccination earlier in border areas, especially in known high-risk areas.

After the new crown vaccine production capacity is increased, can the distribution and transportation keep up?

  On the one hand, the growth rate of the vaccinated population is accelerating; on the other hand, people are also worried because vaccines also need certain storage conditions during the transportation process. Can the transportation conditions that match it be done well enough?

Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Vaccine R&D Committee:

I think we have made relatively good preparations, because our country is not like the United States. There is only one CDC. We have 3,500 municipal CDCs across the country. Multiple.

At the same time, it is also a large logistics country. The logistics transportation system is very developed. Coupled with fast transportation tools such as high-speed rail, there is no problem with the distribution process and transportation efficiency.

  When it comes to storage, our country’s vaccines, especially the inactivated vaccines that are currently being vaccinated by citizens, do not require high storage temperature-2 to 8 degrees Celsius.

In fact, even if the temperature in the south reaches more than 30 degrees, there is no problem.

In the accelerated stability test, we can see that (vaccine) can be stored for four weeks in an environment of 37 degrees.

The absolute number of vaccinations in the United States ranks first in the world. Why is the number of new confirmed cases increasing every day?

Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Vaccine R&D Committee:

Before vaccination in the United States has reached the level of herd immunity barrier, more than 20 states have already lifted conventional prevention and control measures, and people are not required to wear masks. , People can flow in disorder, and many public meeting places that should not be opened are also open, which is completely unscientific.

Despite repeated calls by experts like Fauci, many states still refuse to listen.

This also reminds us that

when vaccination does not reach the herd immunity barrier, conventional public protection measures must not be reduced.

If China cannot establish an immune barrier in time, what will be the consequences?

Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Vaccine R&D Committee:

If we do not build an immune barrier as soon as possible with the least costly vaccine, then our country’s advantages will become disadvantages, and an immune depression will be formed. Viruses can easily flow here like a flood.

Therefore, before possible risks arise, we must establish an immune barrier to maintain our advantage.

It is also the obligation of every citizen to actively participate in the country’s vaccination.

What are the concerns about the rapid advancement of new crown vaccination work?

Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Vaccine R&D Committee:

These challenges are equally stressful for vaccine production capacity, citizens’ willingness, and government work efficiency, but our government, public health, and medical institutions have very strong organizational capabilities. It has been shown during the previous "war epidemic period" that the epidemic was controlled by conventional means.

I believe that in the "vaccination war", we will definitely organize better.

Specifically, I have two worries: ①At present, our main vaccine is still two doses.

People should not relax after one dose. They must finish the second dose so that the best immune effect can be produced.

②Despite our large vaccine production capacity and strong organizational capabilities, we still have to undertake international obligations. How

can we ensure the control of the epidemic in China and support the control of the epidemic in developing countries

under the deployment of the government?

This is the second A worrying question.