Shinya Yamanaka: If Japan does not vaccinate widely, the epidemic will spread next year

2021/05/0723:24:15 science 2301

Source: People's Daily Online

Shinya Yamanaka: If Japan does not vaccinate widely, the epidemic will spread next year - DayDayNews

Shinya Yamanaka, Director of the iPS Cell Research Institute of Kyoto University. (Photo source: "Asahi Shimbun")

People's Daily Online Tokyo, May 6. According to the "Asahi Shimbun" report, Shinya Yamanaka, director of the iPS Cell Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, recently accepted In the interview, on how to quell the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he said: "It depends on whether the government can fully expand the scope of vaccination of the people as soon as possible." Papers related to the epidemic and called on everyone to actively take epidemic prevention measures. In February, he also updated his website with vaccine-related content.

Shinya Yamanaka said: "I try my best to understand the contents of papers related to vaccines and then publish them in an easy-to-understand way. If I don't promote large-scale vaccination now, it is very likely that this time next year will result. The epidemic spreads again.”

Yamanaka Shinya pointed out: “If Japan wants to quell the epidemic, at least 70 million to 80 million people need to be vaccinated, otherwise there will be no significant effect.” If you follow the twice According to the standard calculation of vaccination, Japan needs to complete about 160 million vaccinations before the winter when the epidemic is easy to spread . Yamanaka Shinya said: "This requires a lot of vaccines, and it is also an test of for the Japanese government's ." (Compiler: Xu Wenjin Reviewer: Chen Jianjun)

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