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Healthy Ageing: Why Prioritise Older Persons for the COVID-19 Vaccines?
38 mins·16:00, 20 Jan 2021
Healthy Ageing: Why Prioritise Older Persons for the COVID-19 Vaccines?
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16:00, 20 Jan 2021
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Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccination strategy has gotten much attention because they’re prioritising young, working adults below the age of 60 rather than the elderly. Other countries, including Malaysia, are prioritising the elderly, in a bid to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Is this the right move? In the first of our new monthly series focussing on the elderly, we take a look at ageism in vaccination strategies and COVID-19 treatment, and what this says about how we view the elderly in our society with consultant geriatrician Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin.
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Presenter: Meera Sivasothy
Producer: Lim Sue Ann, Teo Xing Yu
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