"I asked several community health service centers, and they all said that there is no influenza vaccine and it will take some time to arrive." As the high incidence of influenza is approaching, not being able to get a vaccine has become a concern for many people. Recently, the reporter learned from the Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention that a batch of influenza vaccines will be delivered to the vaccination site before the end of the month.
Relevant person in charge of the Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention introduced that from September 1st to the present, 370,000 domestic influenza vaccines have been purchased and supplied in the province, 70% of the distribution has been completed, and the balance is expected to be delivered before the end of the month. There are 117,000 imported adult vaccines and 54,000 children's vaccines, and will also be delivered before the end of the month.
It is understood that influenza is a respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza viruses that are more harmful to human health. Its antigenicity is variable and spreads rapidly, and can cause seasonal epidemics every year. It is particularly harmful to pregnant women, infants, the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. Usually, Kunming will enter a high-incidence period from the end of November to the end of February of the following year. The best time to get a flu vaccine is before the beginning of the flu season every year, and September and October are generally the best vaccination period. Influenza vaccine belongs to the second category of vaccines, and the public can receive it voluntarily and at its own expense. Immunity is usually gained 2 to 4 weeks after influenza vaccination.
Previously, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reminded that the new crown pneumonia epidemic is spreading around the world, and autumn and winter are the seasons of respiratory diseases. Reducing temperatures are conducive to the survival and spread of viruses such as the new crown and influenza. There is a risk that the new crown epidemic will be superimposed on respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza this fall and winter. To this end, influenza prevention and control work this year is particularly important.
Under such a general background, whether this year's influenza vaccination will cause supply and demand contradictions has also become the focus of public attention. At the 2020 academic exchange meeting on seasonal influenza prevention and control strategies, Feng Luzhao, professor at the Peking Union Medical College of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, predicted that compared with 2019, the batch issuance of influenza vaccines is expected to double to reach 50 million doses in 2020. According to statistics on the batch issuance of biological products released by the China Food and Drug Inspection Institute, as of September 8, influenza vaccines have been issued in total, including three types of trivalent influenza vaccines, quadrivalent influenza vaccines and newly launched freeze-dried nasal spray influenza live attenuated vaccines. Compared with last year, the number of companies that received influenza vaccine batch issuance this year has increased to 7.
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How should citizens make an appointment to get influenza vaccine?
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reporter learned that you can check the arrival of vaccines in nearby community health service centers through the WeChat public account "Appointment" and choose to make an appointment to receive the quadrivalent influenza vaccine, trivalent influenza vaccine or nasal jet influenza vaccine. You can also consult and make an appointment directly at the nearby community health service center.
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Source: Kunming Daily People’s Daily
