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MONTHLY WEBINAR
COVID-19 vaccination and older people: protection or gerontocide?
Friday 2 December
2-4pm (UK time)
Chair: Camilla Williamson, HelpAge International.
Speakers:
Aravinda Guntupali
University of Aberdeen, UK.
A progress report on the COVID-19 vaccination of older people in India.
Leon Geffen and Gabrielle Kelly
The Samson Institute for Ageing Research (SIFAR).
COVID-19 vaccination in long-term care facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Lucas Sempé
Universidad Católica San Pablo, Peru and University of East Anglia, UK.
Does prioritising older people in COVID-19 vaccination save more lives? The case of Peru.
Vaccine ageism and crimes against humanity.
A few days ago, the British Medical Journal published an opinion piece: “Crimes against humanity in Brazil’s covid-19 response—a lesson to us all”
India’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign update: older people remain a low priority
India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 1040 million doses as of 27th October 2021. Only 30% of these are second doses.
COVID-19 vaccination ageism reaches a new level in Thailand
Thailand has a strong tradition of family respect and support for older people, but there are signs that the COVID-19 pandemic has put these norms under pressure, both in terms of family behaviour and in state policy.
Vaccine cakeism and moral dilemmas.
Over the past months, a lot has been said about vaccine nationalism. Much less has been said about vaccine ageism (the decision of some countries to prioritise lower risk groups over those at the oldest ages). And almost nothing has been said about vaccine cakeism.
Older people and social movements in times of COVID-19 – Brazil’s National Front for the Strengthening of LTCFs (in Portuguese)
No combate à COVID-19, distintas mobilizações e movimentos sociais têm sido originados e/ ou fortalecidos em diversas partes do mundo.
Estimating excess mortality in the first wave of Peru’s COVID-19 pandemic: more than just an academic exercise?
Lancet Americas has just published a paper in which we develop a new method for estimating excess numbers of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and applies this method to Peru
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, 5 February 2021.
“There is a disturbing narrative in some countries that it’s OK if older people die. It’s not OK… Those most at risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19, including health workers and older people, must come first. And they must come first everywhere.”
86%
Of reported COVID-19 deaths in Chile since the start of the pandemic have been aged 60 or more.
In Argentina, the average age of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is
74
In Peru, people aged 60 or more account for
70%
of reported COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
From March 2020 to 2021
86%
of Colombia’s 55,000 reported COVID-19 deaths were aged 55+.
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