Epidemic prevention and control | State Council joint prevention and control mechanism: disabled, semi -disable, and solitary elderly should actively vaccinate the new crown vaccine

On the afternoon of July 23, the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the safety effectiveness of the new coronary virus vaccine and answered media questions.

In the release, a reporter asked questions that according to statistics, a large part of the elderly over 80 years old in my country is a disabled elderly and the elderly living alone. Many elderly people live in remote villages. Is there still a need to vaccinate these elderly people?

In this regard, Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Science and Technology Development Center of the National Health and Health Commission and the leader of the research and development of the research and development of the scientific research group, replied that the above -mentioned elderly people should actively vaccinate the new crown virus vaccine.

He pointed out that the disability and semi -disability rate of the elderly over 80 in my country accounted for about 40%. Most of these disabled, semi -disabled, and alone elderly people stay at home rarely, and many elderly people think that they do not go out in remote villages and mountainous areas, so their family members and old people themselves think that the risk of the elderly infection infection is the risk of the elderly infection. It's small. In fact, this understanding is very dangerous.

Zheng Zhongwei believes that with the significant increase in the coverage of vaccination and the variation of virus, asymptomatic infections are increasing. Our country is a country with a strong affection. If the relatives or some old friends at home are asymptomatic infected, we will return to the old man at home or our relatives and friends to visit the old man, and we will bring the risk of infection to them. Once these elderly people are infected, and they have not vaccinated vaccines and have not carried out vaccines to strengthen needle vaccination, the risk of severe and death will increase significantly. Therefore, the elderly must be accelerated.

Zheng Zhongwei emphasized that only by increasing the vaccination rate of the elderly, including the vaccination rate, including the vaccine enhanced needle, can we minimize the risk of severe and death caused by the new crown virus to the elderly themselves. From another perspective, you can also take the initiative to prevent and control the country's epidemic.

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