It’s too late, too late… France only 138 people in 4 days vaccination Why

The United States is struggling with the slower-than-expected vaccination rate for the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). The plan is to increase the initial vaccination rate by adding an additional amount of water. The need to first resolve obstacles such as infrastructure construction and vaccine mistrust Point out comes out.

On the 31st of last month (local time), Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the government is considering using a vaccine that has been reserved for the second dose.

The U.S. originally planned to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2020, but the actual number of vaccinated people was only 2.79 million. This is 13% of the planned number of people.

First of all, it came up with a strategy to increase the speed by expanding the number of vaccination targets. However, opinions are divided because there is a problem that the second dose may become insufficient if a prepared vaccine is used.

The COVID-19 vaccine needs to be given twice at regular intervals to be effective. The Pfizer vaccine is administered 21 days after the first vaccination, and the Modena vaccine is administered again 28 days later. If this period is exceeded, the effect cannot be guaranteed.

The slow vaccination rate makes it annoying The same goes for France. The vaccine began on the 27th of last month, but only 138 people received the vaccine for four days. This contrasts with 131,626 people beaten in Germany during the same period.

The U.S. is the second in the world to start vaccinating Pfizer, but it has a lower immunization rate to the population than Israel, which started six days later. As of the 31st of last month, the number of vaccinations per 1 million people in Israel was 9.18 doses, while in the US it was only 0.84. France has been vaccinated five days ago, but it is still zero.

What is the cause? Health experts cite the lack of infrastructure necessary for the Corona 19 situation, such as manpower and facilities. According to the New York Times (NYT) and others, state health officials agree that separate facilities and additional personnel for large-scale vaccinations should have been prepared in advance.

Social distancing is possible, and a quarantine place to monitor the condition for 15 minutes is essential, but there was not enough time to prepare. It took time to prepare these facilities, and many hospitals were unable to get the vaccine right away.

Another delay was due to lack of consistent guidelines on site. The federal government only distributed the vaccine to each state’s base area, and left the detailed instructions to the field judgment. There was no accurate guidance, so the site was a series of chaos. At a hospital in West Virginia, the US made the mistake of injecting a monoclonal antibody treatment rather than a vaccine.

The lack of manpower and funds is also an obstacle. It is said that many of the medical staff should have been prepared for a situation where many of the medical staff are leaving for holiday during the holiday season such as Christmas. It was also difficult to secure additional manpower due to insufficient funding.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, “Before and after Christmas, the vaccination rate slowed dramatically. It will not recover until the first weekend of January, which enters the New Year holidays.”

In France, rejection of vaccines is cited as a larger cause. Earlier, as a result of a survey conducted by Ipsos, a polling company, in 15 countries including the UK and Germany, the number of French people who said they would be vaccinated was the lowest with 40%. This is much less than the UK (77%) and Germany (65%).

Eventually, the government came to push forward a bill that mandated the submission of vaccination confirmation certificates when using public transportation, but only aroused a backlash called’health dictatorship’. Health experts advised that “convincing the public by specifying the vaccination strategy and providing information transparently should be a priority.”

Reporter Lee Min-jung [email protected]