I am glad there are vaccination programs started in a lot of countries. It will take us a couple of months at least before it starts in our country.
In Israel, they have started vaccination for the people on Dec 19 last year. Since the population is pretty small there, that is, only 5 million and they are vaccinating 10% of the people for 10 days, they will finish it in 10 weeks as they planned. The efficacy of the Pfizer product will be shown in a few weeks. It could be my bias but the graph of the daily diagnosed number of cases and of the death cases seem to be flattened now. Close observation is necessary to conclude about it.
They say the virus is undergoing mutations 20 times a year. There could be a mutant for more infectivity or for more virulence. For example, the recent UK mutant strain is told to be 70% more infective. The strain reported from S. Africa seems to evade from our immunity, that means it could be resistant to the vaccine as well. We should hasten the vaccination program all over the world before such mutation is prevailing.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.10.426143v1
I have heard they are registering the vaccination in the internet. It seems a bit complicated to some people. There could be people who could not access to the internet as well. In our country, so far as now, I have never heard them preparing for the vaccine program. Pfizer product requires very low temperature storage. And there are a lot of elderly who are supposed to take the vaccine first and are not readily accessible to the internet. I just wonder how the administration office handles it. From the experience of H1N1 Influenza in 2009 as a medical staff, there could be a big mess with vaccination in our country, I suspect.
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