Launch of mass vaccination will be announced next week: youth and youth will be vaccinated in stages

Delfi points out that residents over 45 can already get vaccinated in Vilnius. Meanwhile, in many other municipalities, 65 m remain. + age poster (plus other groups by occupation and chronic disease).

SAM Chancellor Jurgita Grebenkovienė told the “Delfi Tema” program that soon the general population of Lithuania will receive good news.

“This is related to the start of mass or staged vaccination. We will announce its start next week. It can be said that there is already a five-minute start to mass vaccination. We can also see in figures that most municipalities are already running out of priority groups and naturally we are already moving (not only Vilnius, but also other municipalities) to younger age groups, ”said J. Grebenkovienė.

The Chancellor explained that all residents will be informed at the same time which day will be considered the start of mass vaccination in Lithuania.

“Our goal is that we start at the same time. We are already seeing that there are municipalities that will naturally begin to vaccinate the youngest next week, one after another. We just want to give an official start, and thus inform the population that“ look “It’s your turn to get vaccinated. Stay active, get vaccinated, there are vaccinations and don’t take too long,” said J. Grebenkovienė.

Mass vaccination, according to the SAM Chancellor, will be carried out by age groups, moving towards an increasingly younger population.

Ambrozaitis: It is important to try to be skeptical.

Arvydas Ambrozaitis, professor and infectologist at the Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, agrees with his colleagues, who claim that they did not speak to an anti-vaccine for constipation. However, in the teacher’s opinion, efforts should be made on doubts.

“If people are categorically against vaccines, they do not listen to what they are told. They are simply in another information space, there is another approach, their thinking and some interpretation, it seems to me that it is a useless matter.

But there are people who doubt it. We can change the opinion of skeptical people and convince them, ”said A. Ambrozaitis.

According to the professor, once again people should be presented with the fact that more than three million people have already died from this infection. But no deaths have been reported from the vaccine itself.

“The public often does not understand that what happens after a vaccine does not have to happen because of the vaccine itself, and that evidence, an investigation, is needed to decide whether the vaccine really contributed to the phenomenon. People die every day in hospitals from a heart attack, a heart attack can be vaccinated earlier, but it would still be dead, regardless of whether the vaccine is injected or not.

For whatever reason, it is common for us to demonize the vaccine. And the disease seems to be secondary. When people say, “I’ll get better, but I won’t get that bad, unknown, experimental vaccine,” they simply show thinking problems. I think we should work in this place, “said A. Ambrozaitis.

According to the professor, it is good that the people in power have been vaccinated in public.

“It just came to our knowledge then. This had to be done much earlier, especially at the mayors level. They are local leaders who are closer to ordinary people. Their example should be contagious,” commented A. Ambrozaitis.

The professor was surprised that people in Lithuania are not willing to listen to the arguments of experts (scientists, doctors).

“Most of the time, the opinion of the Internet or something populist is more important to them. It is unfortunate that there are also some members of the Seimas who are categorically against vaccines. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) He says that not getting vaccinated or urging not to vaccinate, as several members of the Seimas do, is a threat to national security. I think this is a serious sign, “said A. Ambrozaitis.