What problems do you foresee with the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine in Japan?

The lack of syringes and concerns about injecting them on the elderly. Other countries have expressed concerns about inoculating older people, immune system-compromised, and other issues considering the side effects. I'm just going to leave it at that and wait for a better explanation from virusrex.

Plenty. And I'm guessing most of them will be problems we didn't think of now or earlier.

Oh gee I don't know.

Perhaps the sharps shortage. It is being run by bureaucrats and pols and not medical people. Tokyo will get the bulk and leave the rest of the country waiting for months. All the while waiting for the gov't to get its act together, you will need a vac pass to travel out of Japan or enter.

I could go on, but you know it all living here.

Bureaucracy.

Supply.

An uncoordinated vaccination programme.

Anti- vaxxers spreading lies.

And, above all, bureaucracy.

I fear local governments will haul out long-retired doctors because the currently employed doctors are too busy. And the long-retired doctors won't know what to do or how to do it and won't get sufficient training.

Plus, the vaccine needs to be refrigerated and I fear some government bureaucrat will 'forget' to plug in the refrigerator (a regrettable error, for sure).

1) bureaucracy

2) wasting time filling excel sheets + 1)

3) central and local governments inefficiency + 2) + 1)

4) excuses and blaming others

5) recent rise of anti-vaxxers

6) bad coordination

7) bad time schedule

I've been here for three decades and I learned pretty quickly that if there is a new situation here, people can't react to it and absolutely cannot improvise. It's always like waiting for deus ex machina

borschtToday  10:47 am JST

I fear local governments will haul out long-retired doctors because the currently employed doctors are too busy. And the long-retired doctors won't know what to do or how to do it and won't get sufficient training.

Rubbish. You never forget how to give a vaccination, if fact anyone can be taught to administer a vaccine. The UK has employed many retired health care professionals during the pandemic and has also trained volunteers to administer vaccines, as long as there is a health care professional available for any emergencies it’s fine. How on earth do you think the UK has managed to vaccinate so many people in such a short time.

The lack of syringes and concerns about injecting them on the elderly. Other countries have expressed concerns about inoculating older people, immune system-compromised, and other issues considering the side effects.

Some of the concerns are justified, for example vaccinating people that have propensity to allergies or that have other immune problems, but up until now there is no evidence that the vaccine is not effective or specially dangerous on elderly patients. The whole thing in Europe is a mess because of reports based on incomplete (or no) information that has made taking a decision too complicated, but at least for not vaccination has not been related to increased deaths of patients of any age group.

I fear local governments will haul out long-retired doctors because the currently employed doctors are too busy. And the long-retired doctors won't know what to do or how to do it and won't get sufficient training.

Not likely to be a problem, even "paper-doctors" that went to scientific research instead of treating patients after graduation should be able to administrate vaccines and keep a patient under vigilance for immediate adverse reactions.

Waste of vaccine because of human error is a possibility, but nothing that a checklist cannot prevent (let's just hope storage sites are using them).

That I and my wife will have to wait forever to get our vaccination vouchers because we're at the bottom of some list.

Never saw one mess up in 37 years.

Nothing to roll-out means there are also currently no problems. lol

Several mishaps may arise in earlier phase, but the overall rollout will go smoothly. Over time Japan will even outpace some other countries considering its capacity and public cooperation. Antivaxxers will become silent and secede.

In recent years there has been an increase of medical treatment alternatives in Japan, eg. Medical Reiki, Biofield Therapy. Many of these charge exorbitant prices. People who are neverous about a vaccine may get duped into paying large sums of money to these new types of alternative treatments.

Just Bureaucracy. Nothing more, Nothing less. - As the same with everything in Japan. Same problem the EU have had. UK have proved its possible to run something quickly and smoothly with bureaucratic shackles removed.

I think once Japan get over their initial over caution, it will start to run pretty smoothly.

Lets not make a massive deal over the 5 vs 6 dose thing with the Pfizer Vaccine. That was an fortunate accidental find early in January in the UK and US.

Someone forgetting to reload the paper in the fax machine when important info is coming through.

judging by the roll out of the abemasks, which were just masks that needed to be posted out, not a vaccine that needs to be super frozen and injected into people’s arms, one cannot begin to imagine how many problems this rollout will have. Many have been mentioned above. Lack of supply the vaccine is obviously critical before even any of the other problems start. Distribution and problems of refrigeration, scheduling and wastage are followed. As an over 65, one of 30,000,000 in the country I think I will be lucky to be vaccinated around late summer/ Autumn just before the next winter. As for the rest of the population 2022 is likely

The biggest "problem" is the fact that only certified doctors and nurses are permitted to administer the jabs. They will have to be diverted from their usual work to do this, or work overtime. This is the bottleneck in getting the vaccine out.