Published May 16, 2021, 2:32 PM
The country remains ill-prepared to vaccinate its citizens against COVID-19 as it falls on its target to vaccinate 120,000 people a day to achieve herd immunity by the end of this year, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, May 16.
Citing a herd immunity tracker on Twitter, Robredo said that at the rate the country is going, it will take five years to reach herd immunity.
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Although Robredo did not cite him, Edson Guido (#statslookandlisten), who is a doctoral degree candidate in economics at the University of the Philippines, said that it will take the Philippines until November 2026 if it will continue to administer only 67,780 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine every day.
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Philippines ranked third in the COVID-19 case fatality rate in
Southeast Asia, according to a May 7 data from Our World In Data.
Our World In Data, a website providing global overview on how living conditions are changing, is “a collaborative effort between the researchers of the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development at the University of Oxford.”
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate ranking was shared by youth-oriented science organization Earth Shaker Philippines in response to an infographic posted by the state-run Philippine News Agency on Monday.
PNA reported that the country has a 92.7% recovery rate compared to its regional neighbors as of Sunday, citing data from Worldometer.
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That’s how many mostly mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were tagged as “recovered” last Sunday. Reasons enough to cheer – but what do the numbers mean?
ABS-CBN’s latest superstar, Edson Guido, head of data analytics, explains it this way:
“What DOH is doing is they report thousands of recoveries every Sunday as part of Oplan Recovery where they do ‘time-based tagging’ for mild and asymptomatic cases. If after 14 days patients are found to be without symptoms, they are tagged as recovered. DOH no longer requires repeat tests for these cases. If their symptoms progress, their status gets updated in the system to either severe or critical.”
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