00:00I think 70% as a goal.
00:02If you're lower than 70, you might still be a little bit okay.
00:06If you're lower than 60, you're never going to be okay.
00:09We started symbolically last week,
00:12but that was basically a media opportunity.
00:16They vaccinated a handful of people, really.
00:20And then this week it is starting in elderly care homes.
00:26That's an ambitious goal.
00:30Because in Belgium there are 1,400, 1,500 elderly care homes.
00:41They want to reach that population first
00:44because there were still outbreaks in these elderly care homes
00:46with a lot of mortality.
00:48About half of the mortality in Belgium is in the elderly care homes.
00:53That's a logistical nightmare.
00:55They could have started with an easier goal,
00:58and that would be the hospitals.
01:00You have 104 hospitals, and they're all professionally run.
01:04They're easy to reach.
01:05They all have a hospital pharmacy where you can deliver vaccines
01:10and they can be stored.
01:11With 1,500 elderly care homes, it's a more ambitious goal.
01:16The problem, of course, is the transportation of the vaccines.
01:25They're also very small vials that need to be diluted carefully
01:30and then have to be really administered in very tiny syringes.
01:36They also have to be there, of course, to do that.
01:39But you need to be trained, at least a minimum, to do that.
01:45That's going to be ambitious for some of the physicians
01:48that work in the elderly care homes.
01:50So after that, the hospitals will be vaccinated, hospital staff.
01:55And I also hope the primary care physicians,
02:00about 10,000 primary care physicians.
02:02And then that's it for the first wave.
02:04And then we have to wait for the next shipment.
02:07And they will come in the meantime.
02:10And then after that, the people with underlying medical conditions
02:15and the other elderly that are not in elderly care homes,
02:18they will be vaccinated, after that it will be the essential professions.
02:26And I hope by that time we have enough other companies on the market
02:31not to have to make priorities there.
02:33Because then the priorities become extremely difficult.
02:37Because everybody wants to be vaccinated.
02:41And then you will have to prioritize police, the firemen,
02:46the army and whatever.
02:48And they will all come and it will be impossible to make choices there.
02:52So after that, I hope for a campaign in a general population,
02:57where everybody who wants it can get vaccinated.
03:00There are too many uncertainties.
03:02We don't know which vaccines will be approved.
03:05We don't know how much they can produce.
03:08And at what schedule they can deliver vaccines.
03:13So everything beyond the horizon of a month is fraught with uncertainty.
03:21In the beginning, it will be probably 10,000, 20,000 rapidly in a couple of weeks.
03:26It will be at a speed of 90,000 per week.
03:31That's the number of vaccines that we'll get.
03:34If other vaccines will come on the market,
03:37you organize them in a different way and you vaccinate more.
03:39The thing that I want to speed up is in the first weeks now,
03:44we have now more vaccine in the country than we vaccinate.
03:47That worries me.
03:49It's also not good for the public perception.
03:51So we really have to speed that up.
03:53You have these anti-vaccination groups.
03:57Yesterday, one of the lawyers for one of these anti-vaccination groups
04:04appealed in a Facebook message or in an internet message,
04:08the video for the death penalty for me and the other virologists.
04:13So, yeah, so I'm really afraid now.
04:18They're crazy people.
04:19I love them to do that because that shows the other people that they're really lunatics.
04:25Yeah, it's really weird.
04:27I mean, three of the virologists in Belgium, including me,
04:31we have police protection at home.
04:34So there is a police car standing in front of my house.
04:38That's what it boils down to.
04:40It's really crazy.
04:40So I believe just kill us.
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