MANILA, Philippines — Vaccinating people aged 50 and above will prevent 80 percent of deaths related to COVID-19, an epidemiologist advising the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) said Wednesday.
Dr. John Wong, a member of the IATF’s sub-technical working group on data analytics, pointed out that even though Filipinos aged 50 and above compose only 17 percent of the population, they contribute 81 percent of the country’s COVID-19 deaths.
“Although the working-age population is most likely to be infected, the elderly are most likely to die,” Wong said during his presentation in an online town hall forum.
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