"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...
"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 exc...
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...
However, elderly people remain the biggest high-risk group. Wu Zhiwei, director of the Center for Public Health Research at the Medical School of Nanjing University, suggests elderly people who aren't vaccinated get a COVID vaccine as soon as possible....
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...
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...
The main reasons for vaccine hesitancy by the public were: concern for vaccine safety, low infection risk, waiting and seeing others getting vaccinated, concern of vaccine effectiveness and price. Their relative importance differed between adults aged 18-59 and the elderly, and between adults aged ...
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...
This investigation was undertaken with the aim of elucidating the disparities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among elderly denizens residing in nursing homes as compared to their counterparts within the broader community. Our objective was twofold: to scrutinize the determinants underpinning vaccine hesitan...
Gottlieb said those who are vaccinated and may come in contact with young children, the elderly, or immunocompromised individuals should be conscious of putting others at risk and spreading the virus. "We need to recognize, especially for vaccinated people who might be in contact with young childr...