In mid May
Singapore is expecting to administer at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine to its entire adult population by early August, authorities said on Tuesday, after a decision to widen the gap between doses to inoculate more people faster.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/singapore-seeks-covid-19-vaccination-all-adults-by-august-2021-05-18/
The first jab is very important because
Very small numbers of people have been admitted to hospital with Covid several weeks after having one vaccine dose, a study of UK patients has found.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56933756
So PM’s message that we are ahead of schedule is good news.
The BBC report goes on to say,
Most of those affected were frail and elderly and at high risk of being very unwell.
Hence PM’s call yesterday
For those with elderly parents or relatives, please encourage and persuade your old folks to get vaccinated.
He reported that 280,000 elderly people have yet to book appointments and urged them to do so as soon as possible. The govt should hunt them down and vaccinate them forcibly, if necessary, for their own good and the nation’s prosperity.
So far S’pore is doing pretty well : 37% have had one dose and 28% have had the two doses. Lawrence Wong for PM!
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yezzzzz! Larry for PM. Btw the mad Proff finally went for Moderna saying with the Indian variant can’t wait anymore for Sinovac/
1st dose effectiveness & spacing out the 2 shots was good strategy against the original Covid variant (which the UK took full advantage of in late-2020 & early-2021), but much lower against the newer mutations.
The window for 1st shot providing 70+% efficacy has long closed, unless the pharmas update their current vaccines to incorporate the latest variants spike protein morphologies.
Note that the current mRNA vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) confer only about 33% effectiveness against the Indian variant after 1 shot.
Need both shots (plus the 2 weeks after the 2nd shot for immune system to build out its defenses) for the 80++% efficacy against Indian variant.
2 shots of traditional vax like Sinovac or Astra provides about 60% efficacy against the Indian variant.
Future variants will only get stronger as the virus evolves & seeks to become more effective and productive LOL.
PS: The non-permanent but horrendous event to the Indian economy (estimated 2-3 million Covid deaths) is a prime example of 1-off exogenous event that usually presents excellent opportunities for long term investments. 😉
Is there publicly available data on the number of people here infected/ killed by the Indian variant?
https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/
So far total 292 cases of ahneh variant in SG. You can also check other variants.
72 B1617.x cases in past 4 weeks — 76.6% jump. No surprise since we started from low base.