A street in Beijing vaccinates centenarians. Why are some elderly people unwilling to get COVID-19 vaccine?

Liu, 102 years old, completed the first vaccination at the community vaccination site in ganjiakou Street, Haidian District. After seeing the notice of vaccination in the community, Mr. Li took the initiative to let relatives get vaccinated; Grandma Cao, 98 years old in Huairou District, Beijing, recently finished the first injection of COVID-19 vaccine. Grandma Cao said: "My heart is safe and my family is more at ease."

Recently, various districts in Beijing have introduced various warm-hearted services to deal with the "last mile" problem, encouraging the elderly over 60 years old to take the initiative to vaccinate COVID-19, and more and more elderly people are vaccinated.

More than two years' experience in epidemic prevention shows that vaccination is the most scientific, reasonable, effective and economical method to prevent virus, which can maintain susceptible population, especially in preventing severe diseases and reducing mortality.

According to National Health Commission's detailed introduction, as of March 24th, the total number of people vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine has exceeded 654.38+0.2 billion, but it is worrying that the COVID-19 vaccination rate of the elderly population in some areas has been unsatisfactory. There are 52 million people over the age of 60 who have not been vaccinated all the time, of which 50.7% have been vaccinated all the time, and only 65.438+0.9% have been vaccinated intensively.

Many elderly people don't get vaccinated, and various diseases are not suitable for vaccination due to human reasons; There are also psychological barriers, fearing that vaccination will have adverse reactions; There are also some elderly people who feel that they don't go out much and there is no need to get vaccinated.

However, it must be noted that after the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, data from all over the world have continuously confirmed that the critical and death risks of the elderly infected with the virus are significantly higher than those of adults and children; At the same time, there are also data information showing that the risk of critical illness of the elderly after vaccination is significantly lower than that of the elderly without vaccination; Even if a serious illness occurs, the risk of having to be treated as a serious illness is much smaller than that of people who have not been vaccinated; The time needed to change from severe to mild is also much shorter than that of people who have not been vaccinated. Therefore, it is of great practical significance and curative effect for the elderly, especially the very old, to be vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine.

Recently, the epidemic situation in COVID-19, China is high, and the variants in Omicron are more contagious and concealed, resulting in many asymptomatic virus-infected people. Academician of Zhang Boli Academy of Engineering stressed in an interview: "For key people, such as the elderly and people with basic diseases, as well as weak, obese and serious smokers, they are at risk of disease occurrence and continuous decline, and must pay special attention." therefore

All parts of the country are doing their best to improve the vaccination rate of the elderly. On March 25th, the Beijing Municipal Health and Health Commission issued a notice, stipulating that it is necessary to vigorously publicize and guide the elderly to inoculate COVID-19 vaccine, varicella vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine.

Various districts in Beijing have successively introduced many measures that are close to life and cope with difficulties, such as setting up vaccination mobile cars, delivering seedlings at home and opening "green channels", which have been warmly welcomed by the elderly. The 98-year-old grandmother Cao's relatives said that they had scruples about vaccination before, fearing that they were unwell, and the transportation of the elderly was not convenient. After that, the town and village cadres came to their home many times to introduce the benefits of vaccination in detail, and the service projects in the town were also timely. Grandma Cao resolutely vaccinated.

The key to serving the elderly and promoting vaccine marketing is speed and temperature. The elderly care about physical and mental health and quality of life. Therefore, the vaccine encouragement work should be done well.

Carry out publicity and planning in languages that the elderly can understand and understand, keep the green channel of vaccination unblocked, and firmly believe that the elderly can ensure access and access, and jointly build a safety net for epidemic prevention and control.