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PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - As more people get vaccinated, Malaysia should be prepared to change the way it reacts to the high daily number of Covid-19 cases and instead switch its attention to the hospitalisation and death rates, said Mr Khairy Jamaluddin.
The Science, Technology and Innovation Minister said data had shown that death and hospitalisation rates start to reduce the moment vaccination rates reach between 30 per cent and 40 per cent. That s when we can start hoping, after seeing empirical, real-world data, for death rates to go down, he said when addressing the National Pharmacists Convention 2021 as a panel speaker on Friday (July 9).
The analysis was carried out by the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research organisation to which the US government has referred over the past year.
“As terrible as the Covid-19 pandemic appears, this analysis shows that the actual toll is significantly worse,” said Dr Chris Murray, director of the institute.
The institute said that the project entailed looking into deaths from all causes that would have occurred without a global pandemic and comparing it to excess deaths between March 2020 and March 2021.
The report s estimates focused on deaths directly caused by the virus and not deaths indirectly caused by strapped healthcare systems.