Health ministry panel says people 65 or older should get COVID vaccine priority

Sack these people, it’s not the narrative people want....it’s not like the government is populated by over 65yo men.....oh. You go virus. Get them all. Wish death on nobody but decision makers should reap what they sow or go.

Hang on... I thought Olympic athletes here and from abroad were going to get the priority. Oh... wait... this is just a suggestion. Carry on.

Contradicting I thought the goal of this was depop well I hope the elders are safe and sound

How many different panels do they need? Just get on with it already

thelonius: "How many different panels do they need? Just get on with it already"

If you had 100 Russian Matryoshka dolls inside each other, when you got to the 800th doll, they'll still make more panels to think about making more.

Well, obviously.

He didn’t state the obvious.. Frontline health workers and care home staff... WILL be amount the first to get the vaccine.

This article missed the other group to get priority, those with a BME of over 30.

So let yourself go and have no self control and bingo! You will be rewarded by jumping the queue...

TOKYO

A Japanese health ministry panel said on Friday that people aged 65 or older should get priority for vaccination against COVID-19 as the government sets guidelines that will also prioritise frontline healthcare workers and those with medical conditions.

Just reposting first paragraph as too many people seem to have trouble comprehending

Hopefully, the vax blitz will curb the virus spread but also take some positive psychological effect on mass hysteria.

Japan, with a population of 126 million, has agreements to buy 290 million vaccine doses from Pfizer Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, or enough for 145 million people.

Enough amount. At issue now is how to encourage anti-vaxxers to take it. Side effects could inevitably happen though I assume that its probability is very low for the current products.

The vaccines can't be reserved long; unused ones would be dumped (or the contracts cancelled) if the pandemic stops earlier. The 2009 swine flu was the last case for it;

新型インフルのワクチン、期限切れで廃棄　214億円相当

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG1203H_S0A011C1CR8000

The state could face (unreasonable) public outcry over the waste of money... Beware that our memory and subjective reality are easily biased and reprogrammed.

Great ideas and policy debates on vaccine policies: https://youtu.be/TY-vLrz9XCc

Well, 65 or older is about 30% of population. If they will get initially only a coupe of millions of vaccines, it should be something like 85 or older.

Very suspicious...if it really was so absolutely great and totally safe they would rather have said: before anybody else ever gets it to see , we all here in this ministry are of course on top of the priority list. lol

Just reposting first paragraph as too many people seem to have trouble comprehending

@I@n,

Yup, but who needs reading comprehension anymore? I'm surprised they didn't add TIJ as well.

What are people gonna do when they realize this vaccine is not the cure-all magic silver bullet they are all relying on it to be? This virus is not going to magically disappear just because of a vaccine.

Well plenty of people are contracting it and that'll build herd immunity without them needing to take a vaccine. That's even what the WHO said in June: https://web.archive.org/web/20201105013101/https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-serology

Nothing in your link says that vaccines are better to be replaced with natural infection. If you have two pathways to reach herd immunity, and the vaccine means reaching it with much less risk, that still means the vaccine is the better route.

How did the government know that people wouldn't become immune before there'd even been any evidence for repeat infections? I mean the weight of evidence is massively in favour of immunity likely being acquired, it's so weird how governments are just doing the opposite of what scientific research indicated was the best thing to do... what happened to 'follow the science'?

Because evidence of diminished antibody titers have been available since the first months, it is not a definitive proof but it strongly indicated that immunity could be short lasted with the natural infection. In this case governments were not against what science considered the best available evidence, only your biased misinterpretation of it. They followed what was less risky for the population.

Do the hustle

This virus is not going to magically disappear just because of a vaccine.

Right! That's why so many people are still getting polio and smallpox.