Prognosis
Lockdown Pain Fails to Break Elderly Vaccine Resistance in China
- Roughly half of those aged 80 and older are immunized in China
- Low elderly vaccination rates make it hard for China to reopen
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There’s been one consistent silver lining to Covid-19 outbreaks: they trigger a surge in vaccinations that provide protection against severe infections in the future. China’s elderly are an exception.
Take Shanghai. After the financial hub emerged from a bruising two-month lockdown and vaccination clinics reopened, the number of fully immunized people aged 60 or above increased just one percentage point to 63% in mid-June, despite hundreds of deaths.