They need to be boosted with local mRNA vaccines and updated vaccines.
Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Don't have a problem for you to advocate for mRNA or new vaccines but you have made your points. No need to repeat it multiple times.
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China needs to boost its vaccination but not necessary to be mRNA, local or imported. Further, vaccines are reported can help prevent serious illness and death but not enough to stop infection (omicron). That means, social distance is the only mean to curb the virus!
At the moment, China needs to get people boosted first. 30%+ boosted rate is too low. New vaccines are not ready to deploy yet so need to rely upon the old ones first. In addition, 88% vaccination rate is too low for a country that doesn't have natural immunity. Hong Kong is a hard lesson to be learned. Even two doses of vaccine can cut deaths by 90%. That's why even if only 10% of Chinese didn't vaccinate during an outbreak, death tolls still be enormous as China has a big population.
I have confident if it needed to be social distancing or lockdown. Chinese government can do a good job. The thing is China is probably trying to figure out a way to stamp out the virus without too much disruptive actions. But don't look like it works very well at the moment. Let wait and see.
402 + 435 today (it was 233 + 322 yesterday)
Jilin added 165 symptomatic cases, followed by 66 in Shandong, 66 in Ganshu, 21 in Shan'Xi, and 17 in Guangdong. Yesterday, the numbers were 94, 59, 0, 17, and 7, respectively.
In Guangdong, Shenzhen added 15 (it was 6 yesterday). Shanghai added 4 (3 yesterday).
10 asymptomatic cases became symptomatic today.
Jilin had 179 asymptomatic cases reported today, followed by 112 in Shandong, 76 in Shanghai, 22 in Yunnan and 11 in Ganshu. Their numbers yesterday were 80, 106, 62, 24 and 1, respectively.
Among the 27 probable cases confirmed today, 10 are local.
Jilin added 165 symptomatic cases, followed by 66 in Shandong, 66 in Ganshu, 21 in Shan'Xi, and 17 in Guangdong. Yesterday, the numbers were 94, 59, 0, 17, and 7, respectively.
In Guangdong, Shenzhen added 15 (it was 6 yesterday). Shanghai added 4 (3 yesterday).
10 asymptomatic cases became symptomatic today.
Jilin had 179 asymptomatic cases reported today, followed by 112 in Shandong, 76 in Shanghai, 22 in Yunnan and 11 in Ganshu. Their numbers yesterday were 80, 106, 62, 24 and 1, respectively.
Among the 27 probable cases confirmed today, 10 are local.
How come China's vaccination rate is still not high enough? They have been doing all kinds of universal testing, and lockdown. Why not just boost everybody when people come for testing? Just doing mass testing like crazy is rather useless. People lining up for testing again and again is a waste of resources.
China doesn't have compulsory vaccination policy. Some people just refused to be vaccinated. Others think they can wait. 88% is nothing to sneeze at compare with other countries. Just that China has no natural immunity so required higher vaccination rate to keep people out of hospitals.
How often do they give boosters?
What do you mean? China has approved people from taking a booster six months after their second dose. Except Israel, not many countries have asked people from taking forth dose.
Some colleagues were discussing the situation in HK, I also think it was mentioned here by @KYli, but the private hospitals are refusing to accept new patients which is leading to the scenes of people in the street in HK.
Does the government have no emergency power to compel them? Seems bizarre.
It's funny because some HK acquaintances always point out how "stupid" the Canadian healthcare system is because you cannot pay for access. I always say they are over simplifying it, and simply paying for access does not guarantee quality and usually creates a bottleneck in the worst case scenarios, and this seems to be what is happening here. Not saying the Canadian system is perfect, but I understand the philosophy.
Does the government have no emergency power to compel them? Seems bizarre.
It's funny because some HK acquaintances always point out how "stupid" the Canadian healthcare system is because you cannot pay for access. I always say they are over simplifying it, and simply paying for access does not guarantee quality and usually creates a bottleneck in the worst case scenarios, and this seems to be what is happening here. Not saying the Canadian system is perfect, but I understand the philosophy.