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Above all this – the major events in Lithuania and the world from the first COVID-19 vaccine to its conflicting divisions and future predictions – 15 minutes in the review.
The first vaccine and the first disappointments
It was initially thought that it would take several years to develop an effective vaccine against COVID-19. In February last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it did not expect the vaccine to be available until 18 months later.
But almost a miracle happened: In early December, the UK was the first in the world to approve the Comirnaty vaccine, developed by the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German biotech company BioNTech, and vaccinated its first 90-year-old patient. in December. 8.
Scanpix / AP photo / Margaret Keenan’s first vaccination
The vaccine had not yet been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) at the time, but soon, on December 21, it did.
After 14 days, the Moderna vaccine, based on the same technology, was approved by AstraZeneca at the end of January this year and on March 11. Europe also gave the green light to Johnson & Johnson’s fourth vaccine.
As these vaccines were bought jointly by all members of the European Union (EU), the first vaccines soon arrived in Lithuania. On the morning of the second day of Christmas, the director of the Kaunas Clinics vaccinated the first COVID-19 vaccine in Lithuania. nurse Jolanta Litvinienė.
“Great”, they asked him after the vaccination, how he felt, then he said. “It’s just a normal vaccination procedure, the puncture is short, painless, that’s fine.”
Photo from the Kaunas clinics / Vaccination of employees with the COVID-19 vaccine has started in the Kaunas clinics.
According to the Ministry of Health (SAM) vaccination planIn Lithuania, doctors dealing with COVID-19 patients, volunteers helping them and patients at higher risk received the first vaccines.
Subsequently, employees of mobile points, fever clinics, drivers of personal health institutions who come into contact with people with possible COVID-19, workers of nursing homes, residents and volunteers.
European countries have acted differently on this issue. Most chose one of two: vaccinate the elderly or medical personnel first. But there were also countries like Serbia or the Czech Republic that preferred the country’s politicians.
Dilemmas emerged later and it was discussed which was more correct: first to vaccinate the older people most vulnerable to the virus, or educators, and perhaps, for example, to show skeptics: politicians.
In the end, the biggest problem was not the priority queues, but the quantities of incoming vaccines: the first shipments were only symbolic, and non-EU countries jumped into the ranks of the most likely vaccinated countries.
The leader is Israel, but Lithuania is not the worst
Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom are currently world leaders in vaccination coverage, according to Oxford University researchers from our governments compiled on the Our World in Data website. data is provided (Data as of March 21).
Israel vaccinated more than 52.7 percent with both doses. of all its inhabitants.
In Europe, the UK and Monaco are also leaders, with Malta and Serbia showing good results. As part of the EU, it uses not only vaccines approved by Europe (mainly BioNTech / Pfizer), but also Sinopharm vaccines from China and Sputnik V from Russia.
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