{"id":9334,"date":"2021-01-17T05:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118062\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-pfizer-vaccine-concern-must"},"modified":"2021-01-17T05:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:50:46","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-pfizer-vaccine-concern-must-not-delay-protecting-elderly-against-covid-19-says-top-government-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-pfizer-vaccine-concern-must-not-delay-protecting-elderly-against-covid-19-says-top-government-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: Pfizer vaccine concern must not delay protecting elderly against Covid-19, says top government adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"A top government adviser has said Hong Kong\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination campaign in elderly care homes should launch next month as planned, despite reports in Norway of a mounting death toll among older recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.Ahead of Monday\u2019s anticipated meeting of the coronavirus vaccine panel on whether to approve the German-made vaccine, Dr Lam Ching-choi said the deadly threat that Covid-19 posed to elderly people justified continuing with the first stage of the inoculation\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3118062\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-pfizer-vaccine-concern-must\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top government adviser has said Hong Kong\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination campaign in elderly care homes should launch next month as planned, despite reports in Norway of a mounting death toll among older recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.Ahead of Monday\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}