Vaccinating the Worst-Hit Southeast Asian Country

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Indonesia had planned to prioritize its working-age population for its Covid-19 vaccine. But they recently announced a change of plans: The inoculation program would instead start with healthcare workers, civil servants and the elderly. The government didn’t give a reason for the change, but the shifting procedures show some of the difficulties in coordinating a vaccine rollout for a massive nation spread across a string of islands.

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0:33.6	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 296 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.0	Today's main story, how difficult is it to create a vaccination program for a massive country that's spread across several islands and happens to be the worst hit in its region.
0:56.3	Our Jakarta Bureau Chief explains why Indonesia's vaccine rollout plan keeps changing.
1:04.3	But first, here's what happened in virus news, today.
1:21.7	The rolling average of U.S. coronavirus cases edged up in the past week and is on a path to break records again any day.
1:24.7	Today, 32 states reported seven-day case averages substantially rising over the prior week,
1:32.3	with some of the steepest rises in Kansas and Arizona. That's a sharp turnaround from mid-December,
1:39.4	when 38 states reported cases flat or falling.
1:52.4	Meanwhile, an easier-to-spread variant of COVID-19 was detected in three U.S. states last week,
1:56.4	though health officials don't know how much farther it may have spread.
2:06.9	That could intensify the virus's surge, if it hasn't already, boosting the urgency for a speedier, more effective vaccine push.
2:13.9	Israel plans to vaccinate 70 to 80% of its population by April or May.
2:20.2	That's according to Health Minister Yuley Edelstein. The country is moving faster to inoculate people than any other country in the world on a per capita basis. Israel has already
2:26.6	administered first doses of the Pfizer shot to about 1.2 million residents, or more than 12% of
2:34.1	the population. Officials from Operation Warp Speed,
2:38.6	the U.S. government's vaccine drive, are asking Moderna and the Food and Drug Administration
2:43.6	to cut in half the dose of the company's COVID-19 vaccination for people ages 18 to 55, after finding that it induces
2:54.6	the same immune response. That's according to Chief Scientific Advisor Moncef Slowy,
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