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Original Caption: Experts Suggest You Should Get Your Flu Shot This Fall. Jingdong Health makes an appointment for vaccination at a “freeze price” of 180 yuan
“Make sure you get a flu shot this year! Before the end of September, not later than October, for large groups of people!” Wang Chen, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in respiratory medicine, recently emphasized. critical care, at the annual meeting of the China Science and Technology Association. Scholar Wang Chen has stated many times recently: “Autumn and winter are approaching. Once the new coronary pneumonia merges with influenza, the differential diagnosis will be very difficult. The difficulty of isolating the population will increase significantly, investment of social resources will increase significantly and the mortality rate will increase significantly … … When interacting with the ‘new crown’, the impact on social psychology and social stability cannot be underestimated. The most effective way is to get vaccinated against the flu on time and universally “.
The public is aware of the flu and the new double crown pandemic or is it prepared Last August, the demand for the flu vaccine was very strong. According to data from JD.com, searches for “flu vaccine” in August were up 20 times from the previous month and orders were up 7 times from the previous month. At present, JD Health’s flu vaccine appointment service has covered 41 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Shenyang. Users can search for “flu vaccine” in JD app and enter special page to schedule appointment, and can choose trivalent or quadrivalent vaccine by themselves.
The reporter learned that to meet everyone’s great vaccination needs, JD Health will launch a special Mid-Autumn Festival from September 16-30. The price of influenza vaccine can reach the “freezing point price”: adults (over 3 years old) 180 yuan. At the same time, each box of vaccine has unique drug regulatory code traceability, which can be scanned for authenticity and traceability to ensure safety, so that consumers can rest easy.
According to statistics from the World Health Organization, influenza causes about 650,000 deaths worldwide each year, which is equivalent to one death from influenza every 48 seconds. More than 88,000 people die each year from influenza-related illnesses in China. The influenza virus, which has the same transmission route as the new coronavirus, has an incubation period of 2-7 days. Clinical symptoms mainly include systemic symptoms like high fever, chills, headache, key aches, fatigue, etc., which makes it difficult for the common patient to distinguish it from the symptoms of new coronary pneumonia. The difference.
Experts emphasized that high-risk groups, such as pregnant women, infants and young children, the elderly, and patients with underlying chronic illnesses, are at higher risk of severe illness and death after contracting the flu. Flu vaccination every year is the most effective way to prevent flu, and drug prevention cannot replace vaccination. Especially this year, flu vaccination will be able to provide general immune protection to susceptible people and help resist the second wave of the new corona epidemic. A new study claims that although the flu vaccine will not be effective in preventing new coronavirus infection, it can help reduce the severity of COVID-19 in patients.
