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Andy Meek
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- More than 42.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered around the world as of the time of this writing, per Bloomberg's vaccine tracker.
- Most countries have started off their vaccine programs with inoculations of older people, but at least one major country is tacking a different approach.
- Indonesia will give working age people a coronavirus vaccination before moving to its older population.
Here's an interesting thought experiment. If you were in charge of the US coronavirus vaccine strategy, what would your priorities entail? Would you decide that the vaccine needs to be given as fast as possible to the most vulnerable -- for example, to senior citizens, who we now know are most at risk of dying from COVID-19? Or, would you race to vaccinate as fast as possible the people who are infecting those senior citizens? Meaning, would it be better to kick off your COVID vaccine strategy by inoculating the people who are most often getting sick and who are most often passing on the virus to other people?
You can sort of follow the logic behind that second choice, right? Even if it seems risky, to de-prioritize the older people who are most likely to die during the coronavirus pandemic. Getting the vaccine out as fast as possible to younger people, though, is significantly easier -- these younger people can come to the vaccine site, for example, rather than health professionals needing to go out to the older people, to nursing homes, and the like. Also, it's often younger people who are contracting COVID and then hugging or somehow passing the virus along to grandma and grandpa. This option cuts that out (presumably, but more on that in a moment). What's more, this option also helps the working-age population get back to work faster and the economy somewhat back to normal sooner. And while the US, UK, and Europe have decided to go a similar route -- starting their respective vaccine efforts by targeting vulnerable populations like the elderly -- Indonesia is about to embark on a closely watched experiment, kicking off their own vaccine effort by starting with health workers, public officials (to boost confidence with the wider public) and then the general population of 18- to 59-year-olds. In other words, vaccinating younger people before the elderly.
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The whole world needs to pay attention to Indonesia’s COVID vaccine strategy originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 20:55:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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