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Threatened by new corona pneumonia, this year’s pumping of publicly funded flu vaccines exceeded expectations. Chen Shizhong, commander of the Epidemic Central Command Center, announced today that vaccines for adults ages 50 to 64 will be discontinued.
According to the Department of Disease Control, publicly funded flu vaccines are being vaccinated with enthusiasm this year (109). From October 5 to 14, 2,736 million doses of the influenza vaccine have been administered (vaccine use rate 45.3%). The experts of the Preventive Vaccination Group (ACIP) of the Advisory Committee on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Social Welfare recommend that people older than 65 years and children older than 6 months and children at high risk of influenza have priority for vaccination based on the risk of severe influenza infection. Vaccination for adults 50-64 years without high-risk chronic diseases; In addition, the vaccination site is not limited to the household registry and can be vaccinated in all counties and cities.
The Department of Disease Control further stated that after experiencing the new corona pneumonia epidemic, public awareness of preventing the epidemic has generally increased. Good hygiene habits of wearing masks, frequent hand washing, and maintaining social distancing in daily life can be implemented. The spread of the influenza epidemic this season is expected to be limited.
According to monitoring data from the Agency for Disease Control, influenza virus activity in the Southern Hemisphere influenza season this year is low, and the current rate of visits to emergency and outpatient clinics is similar to that of domestic flu, the number of visits and the number of severely diagnosed flu cases are still at a low point. The Department of Disease Control recalls that, in addition to vaccination, cooperation The implementation of the campaign “Prevention of the Lohas epidemic and healthy life” can also effectively reduce the risk of infection and transmission of influenza.
This year, publicly funded flu vaccines totaled 6.03 million doses and self-funded vaccines totaled 1.15 million doses. Chen Shizhong said 2.97 million doses have been administered so far, which is almost half of what should be administered. During this period, everyone has been struggling very urgently. After discussion by the vaccination team, it is expected that relatively high-risk groups will be administered first and healthy adults temporarily postpone treatment. hit.
Shizhong said that everyone’s hygiene habits are better this year. At 41 weeks last year, the number of flu-like emergency and outpatient visits dropped to 101,900 in one week. In 41 weeks this year, there were only more than 34,000. This year the epidemic will be more stable than last year. And from the perspective of the epidemic situation in the southern hemisphere, it is also at a low point. It can be predicted that the epidemic situation in Taiwan this year can be well maintained as long as everyone wears the masks well.
Various unspoken rules have been reported in many places, such as publicly funded influenza restrictions on home registration. Chen Shizhong said that this will increase the trouble for everyone. Again, everyone can get vaccinated without restricting household registration.
Chen Shizhong said it was announced today and implementation will start tomorrow. When will adult vaccination resume? Chen Shizhong said that it depends on the epidemic situation. Regarding the number of people affected, Chen Shizhong said that the total number of people is 5.3 million. The relative vaccination rate is not that high and the relative beatings rate is low, but a lot of beatings this year.
For the first time the beating was suspended, Chen Shizhong said that last year the beating was carried out in stages, which in fact meant control. Last year 6.78 million doses of vaccines were prepared. On its own account and at public expense, there are 7.48 million doses this year. The coverage rate of the entire population that can be used is 32.7%. At the end of January last year there were 300,000 doses left. If there is a sudden strong attack today, Chen Shizhong urged that everyone really do not have to worry and let high-risk people fight first.
Li Bingying, coordinator of the Vaccination Group of the Advisory Committee on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said there are two reasons for the subjects of publicly funded influenza vaccination. One is the high-risk groups, that is, the risk of serious illness after contracting the flu. The other is to prevent high-spread groups, that is, groups that easily lead to the spread of influenza viruses, such as medical personnel. Furthermore, students are also a high transmission group, and the proportion of students above elementary school who become seriously ill is not high, but it is easy to spread.
As for the 50-64 age group, the risk is not that high. Those over 64 have a higher rate of severe illness after contracting the flu.
Li Bingying said that since the beginning of this year, the Taiwanese flu epidemic has been very low. The southern hemisphere has a very serious flu epidemic but the flu epidemic is very low. Because they have strengthened their epidemic prevention lives, they are very low. The epidemic situation in Taiwan will not increase this year. Taiwan’s epidemic prevention system is working very well. Without large-scale local infections and continuous quarantine measures, the new corona epidemic will be controlled and influenza will not increase the chances of epidemics, thus affecting the wide-spread population. The importance is less, because Taiwan’s epidemic prevention work is interrelated, so the focus is on high-risk groups as priority targets for vaccination.
What is the reason for the lower hitting rate among children this year? Zhuang Renxiang said that the rate of beatings of children six months before enrollment was 23.8% compared to the same period last year and 20.6% this year. As for beatings, children should be brought in to be beaten to keep them healthy. Adults can only receive them when they are free. If they are available in the community, they can be beaten. They are organized mainly by adults, in close proximity, and children must be taken to specific places to be beaten, which may be the cause of the current low rate of child beating.
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