CNN “US and UK,’Vaccine Gambling’ Succeeded… In Asia, the inoculation rate is less than 5%.”

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Early quarantine failure, US and Europe succeeded in vaccine’all-in’ strategy
‘An example of quarantine’ Korea and Australia, less than 5% vaccination rate

With the start of the Corona 19 vaccination, the quarantine situation in the western region and the Asia-Pacific region has changed, the US CNN broadcaster reported on the 16th (local time). The U.S. and Europe received the stigma of “a country of quarantine failure” due to poor initial response to the corona crisis, but they gambled on vaccines and achieved great success.

On the other hand, Asia-Pacific countries such as Korea, Australia, Taiwan, and New Zealand have been evaluated as exemplary countries for quarantine by successfully coping with the prevention of the spread of the coronavirus, but they evaluated that vaccination was delayed due to a careful attitude to the vaccine. Currently, the vaccination rate in the Asia-Pacific region is less than 5%.

On this day, CNN analyzed that the difference in vaccination rates between the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific was a result of the initial quarantine performance of the two regions. In the U.S. and Europe, the damage situation was so serious that the number of confirmed cases and deaths has increased beyond control since March of last year. At the same time, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, etc. were dubbed as’best quarantine countries’ through strict border controls, rapid facility closures, and large-scale inspections.

However, after vaccination began, the situation was reversed. Currently, the US and UK have double-digit vaccination rates, but in Asia-Pacific countries, the vaccination rate is less than 5%.

Currently, in the United States, 37% of all citizens have completed at least the first dose. CNN predicts that the US will achieve population immunity by achieving 70-80% vaccination rates by this summer. The UK, which was the first in the world to be vaccinated, now has a single dose rate of at least 47%.

In contrast, New Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan all have less than 4% vaccination rates. Australia also falls below 5%.

CNN assessed that it was thanks to the’gambling’ that the UK and the US focused on securing vaccines after failing to quarantine in the early days of the crisis. As the country’s quarantine capacity was pushed to its limit, it was said to be’all-in’ to secure a vaccine.

Bill Bautel, a public health professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, said, “The United Kingdom and the United States were in a situation where they had to do anything to get out of the hardships they were creating.” “The UK gambled and made money for vaccine developers,” said Robert Kernel, head of the Asia-Pacific region of ING.

The UK already signed a contract to supply 100 million doses of vaccine with AstraZeneca, which had not yet completed clinical trials, in May last year, and in July signed an additional contract for 90 million doses, including 30 million doses of Pfizer vaccine. At the same time, the US signed a contract with Pfizer for 600 million doses of vaccine.

Jerome Kim, Secretary General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) said, “The UK and the US have put a big stake in vaccines ahead of other countries, and the world is now facing a vaccine supply problem.” “The first turn in the line.”