Around 227.7 million elderly who are 60 years old or older had received at least one jab, around 215.6 million of whom are fully vaccinated. This means that 81.67% of the elderly population have been fully vaccinated in China. About 162.3 million elderly have received a booster shot. Wu said...
An elderly resident has his blood pressure checked before receiving his shot of COVID-19 vaccine at home in Beijing, May 10, 2022. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao) BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 218 million Chinese aged 60 or above, or 82.66 percent of the country's senior citizens, hav...
"I went to the Hong Kong SAR in February 2022. The first thing I found was that 94 percent of deaths there involved elderly people," Liang added.After careful analysis, he found that less than 15 percent of the elderly were vaccinated despite the overall vaccination rate in Hong Kong excee...
BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 3.44 million over-60s in Beijing, or 80 percent of the city's elderly population, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, local authorities said. Over 2.46 million elderly have received booster shots, said the Beijing Center for...
Getting vaccinated remains crucial: Previewing the data's release earlier this month, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky noted that "COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates were 17 times higher in unvaccinated,"CBS Newsreported. The fresh data was presented Monday as the CDC's independent panel ...
Its findings add to growing evidence that it is imperative for the elderly to get vaccinated and then get their booster shots to protect themselves, according to the study published in China CDC Weekly, the national public health...
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D. Old people should be cautious to get vaccinated. 4. According to Torriani, who are the vital people to block coronavirus transmission? A. Healthy people. B. Young people C. Elderly people. D. Weak people. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 1. D 2. C 3. A 4. B 【分析】 本文是...
SHANGHAI, April 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 3.6 million people, which account for 62 percent of those aged 60 and above in Shanghai, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of noon Thursday, according to local authorities. Over 2.2 million elderly residents in the megacity of 25 mill...
"There are also two other factors that impact vaccine effectiveness: (1) waning immunity — we still don't know how long vaccine-induced protective immunity lasts. This is very likely to be a factor in those elderly and more vulnerable individuals who were vaccinated early in the vaccine ...