[코로나 백신]When I researched 10 nursing hospitals nationwide,
On the 1st, the fourth day of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccination, Kim Sun-young (pseudonym, female) in her 50s, who works as a care team leader at a nursing hospital in Gyeonggi-do, said anxiously. In accordance with the principle of’the most dangerous subjects will be administered first,’ vaccination has begun for nursing hospitals and facilities from the 26th of last month. However, as vaccinations over the age of 65 were postponed, this principle was broken. In particular, caregivers who have the closest contact with patients among workers are more than 65 years old than other workers. Even in the nursing hospital where Kim works, 21 out of 36 caregivers were not vaccinated. Since nursing hospitals and facilities are completely isolated from the outside, it is important to realize their own collective immunity. However, many of the nursing hospitals and facilities covered by the Dong-A Ilbo were more likely to become’blind spots’ for a while.
○ Accumulated fatigue in’excluding vaccination’
Tensions continue in nursing hospitals on the 1st, three days after the start of the corona 19 vaccination. In places where there are many elderly caregivers, the fear of infection remains. Usually, the caregiver stays at the hospital and lives with the patient 24 hours a day. However, many of them have to endure the’vaccination gap’ for about a month or two. As a result of checking 10 nursing hospitals nationwide, only 315 (59.1%) of the 533 caregivers working at these hospitals were found to get the Corona 19 vaccine. Four out of 10 people have to take care of patients without vaccination. In particular, in 5 places, half of all hospitals, more than 50% of caregivers were omitted from the vaccination target.
View larger-At Seoul A Nursing Hospital, the number of vaccinations is only 40-50% of all patients and workers. Of the 108 caregivers, 53 (49.1%) are eligible for vaccination. “The nursing hospital is a small group,” said Ahn Seong-gi, head of the hospital’s medical department. “The number of vaccinations must rise by more than 70% to expect group immunity.” In the end, even after vaccination, there is no other choice but to follow the quarantine rules, such as reducing meetings and conducting corona 19 tests twice a week. Unfortunately, the occupational groups with low patient contact tend to have a high vaccination rate. This is because the age range is low. In Gyeonggi-do’s B nursing hospital, all occupational groups with little patient contact, such as cook (6 people), hospital administration (3 people), and nutritionist (1 person), were subject to vaccination. On the other hand, only 5 out of 14 caregivers receive the vaccination. In response, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said, “It does not classify vaccine targets into care, administration, cleaning, and cooking.” This means it is difficult to know which of the caregivers will be vaccinated.
○ Need for positive review of vaccination for the elderly
As vaccinations of caregivers and the like have been delayed, nursing hospital workers are complaining of considerable fatigue. An official from a nursing hospital in Seoul said, “I am very tired. A nursing hospital worker has never been to an outside restaurant for three months because of the’prohibition of going out after work’, he said. He explained, “It goes beyond’prohibition of meetings with more than 5 people’ in that it is impossible to go out at all.” Caregivers in nursing hospitals are also concerned about the situation where only those who have not been vaccinated will be responsible for the outbreak of outbreaks in the future.
Accordingly, there is a growing voice that the AstraZeneca vaccine needs to be quickly verified and that the vaccination of 65 years of age or older should be hurried. Canada, France, and Germany are also preparing to allow or allow vaccination of the vaccine for the elderly. Eom Joong-sik, a professor of infectious medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital, said, “After verifying the safety of the vaccine for the elderly, we must start vaccination as soon as possible. In a briefing on the 1st of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chung Eun-kyung said, “As a result of the Scotland AstraZeneca vaccination, the severe prevention effect was very high.” “We will consider whether the vaccine is used or not.”
Somin Kim [email protected] Reporter Jiwoon Lee
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