Japan publicly insists that it will host its postponed Olympic Games this summer, but to achieve this, many say it is essential to vaccinate its 127 million citizens who oppose coronavirus.

It is a massive and now confusing company due to an overly prudent decision-making process, bureaucratic obstacles and an audience that has long been wary of vaccines.

Japan hopes to start vaccination countries opposed to COVID-19 last February, but the uncertainty is developing that a country ranked among the lowest in the world in vaccine confidence can complete the large allocation of $14 billion in time for the July Games, questioning whether the Tokyo Olympics can pass.

Japan received vaccines for all its citizens, and for some, after entering into agreements with 3 foreign pharmaceutical brands: Pfizer Inc. , AstraZeneca and Moderna Inc. , one year late due to the pandemic. The country wants vaccines because local progression is still in diapers.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, in a speech this week, said vaccines are the “decisive element” in the fight against the pandemic and promised to start vaccinations at the end of February, when the approval of the Ministry of Health of Pfizer vaccine, the first candidate, is expected.

Suga pledged to provide “accurate data on clinical findings, adding side effects and efficacy,” an attempt to address the concerns of vaccine skeptics.

Under the existing plan, vaccines will start with 10,000 frontline medical staff members, then about 3 million more medical staff will be added to high-risk teams, such as the elderly, others with underlying physical disorders, and caregivers. It is expected that the population will have access around May or later, officials refuse to give a precise schedule.

Japan is in a partial state of emergency and faces an increase in infections. There were about 351,000 cases, with 4,800 deaths, for the Department of Health.

Many other people are skeptical about vaccination effort, in part because the side effects of vaccines have been played here. A recent TBS tv survey found that only 48, according to the percent of respondents, said they were looking for COVID-19 vaccination. According to a Lancet study of 149 countries published in September, Japan was among the lowest in terms of vaccine confidence, with less than 25% of others matching the safety, importance and efficacy of vaccines.

Many Japanese have an indistingcinct discomfort about vaccines, said Dr. Takashi Nakano, a professor at Kawasaki Medical School and a vaccine expert. “If something (negative) happens after inoculation, other people tend to think it’s because of the vaccine, and that’s the symbol that stayed in their minds for a long time. “

The history of mistrust in vaccines in Japan dates back to 1948, when dozens of young children died after receiving a defective polio vaccine. In 1989, cases of aseptic meningitis in young people who won a combined vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, triggered anti-government trials, forcing them to abandon the aggregate four years later.

A 1992 court ruling found the government guilty of adverse reactions to multiple vaccines, while defining suspicious side effects as adverse events, but without sufficient clinical evidence, Mavens said.

While several Japanese corporations and organizations are currently developing their own coronavirus vaccines, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. distribute the Moderna vaccine and produce the Novavax vaccine in Japan.

Masayuki Imagawa, director of Takeda’s vaccine business unit in Japan, said his company had thought about creating its own vaccine last year, but instead prioritized speed and decided to import Moderna’s product and manufacture the Novavax vaccine at the Takeda plant in Japan. He said the resolution had not been influenced by the Olympic Games.

Experts also worry about demanding logistical situations and bureaucratic obstacles in establishing a large allocation of inoculation involving five government ministries and local cities. The government has more than $14 billion for vaccine allocation.

Thousands of medical staff deserve to be mobilized to shoot, monitor and respond to problems. Getting help is complicated when hospitals are already overloaded with the remedy of COVID-19 patients, said Hitoshi Iwase, an official in Tokyo’s Sumida district guilty of preparing vaccines for 275,000 people.

Although vaccines are believed to be essential for gaming, Prime Minister Suga said they would not be necessary. “We will prepare for a safe Olympic Games without vaccination being a prerequisite,” Suga said Thursday, responding to a call. opposition lawmakers for additional postponement or cancellation of games to focus on anti-virus measures.

Uncertainty about the protection and efficacy of vaccines makes it difficult to expectation when Japan will be able to achieve sufficiently broad immunity from pandemic coronavirus. “It’s not the case to boost vaccines to hold the Olympic Games,” said Dr. Tetsuo Nakayama, a professor at the Kitasate Institute of Life Sciences. “Vaccines deserve to be used to protect people’s health, not to succeed at the Olympics. “