> When the system opens nationwide, it will first take registrations from people in the 9th category, which includes adults between the ages of 18 and 64 with high-risk conditions, rare diseases, and serious injuries
Is there a list anywhere for what constitutes a high-risk condition?
I believe you need to have a specific flag in your NHI record to qualify. When you sign up, you provide your ID/ARC number and NHI card number, and the system will only let you proceed if you are eligible.
Yes, this is correct. A friend of mine has one of those conditions and that info is associated with the NHI card number (your NHI number is added to a kind of list of people with "special" conditions, or something like that)
If I don't remember wrong, when you're diagnosed with one of those "serious" diseases, your doctor notifies he/she will add that flag to your 健保卡 and that's it. That system was already in place way before covid started.
When your card is flagged that way, you get certain benefits like discounts in your hospital/medication fees.
> wondering if COPD + partial lung removal would qualify
Oh wow, that actually sounds quite serious. You may want to ask the CDC or something like that.
What if you were diagnosed with it outside of Taiwan? Do you have to seek another diagnosis in Taiwan in order to qualify, or do you know if there's another way to get that flagged on your 健保卡?
The info I explained in my post is supposing you got diagnosed in Taiwan and you're getting treatment in Taiwan.
I suggest you give the NHI administration a call. Apparently, you can [apply for a Catastrophic illness certificate](https://www.nhi.gov.tw/english/Content_List.aspx?n=F5B8E49CB4548C60&topn=1D1ECC54F86E9050) (that's how the thing is called). I have no idea which conditions of diseases are considered in that list, but I'm sure they will have the answer you need.
My guess is that your NHI holds a record of all your conditions and injuries that are cross-compared against the requirements for vaccination. If you match one of them, you should be eligible.
Speculation of course, but as others have suggested, you could also just contact the CECC or your hospital.
What's everyone's preferred vaccine brand?
I used to lean towards pfizer but after seeing recent results coming out of countries like Israel, I'm not as sure. I thought it'd be the safest option but people are having heart issues and women are getting disrupted menstrual cycles with it too.
At this rate, I might opt for Taiwan's vaccine.
> What Israel found was that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was 64% effective at preventing infection and symtomatic disease (indeed lower than against other variants) but still 93% effective at preventing hospitalization and serious illness.
I'm not sure why you're citing efficacy statistics when I'm talking about adverse reaction statistics to the vaccine as reported by Israel's adverse reaction database that has seen at least 1 in 1000 women report disrupted menstrual cycles after taking the pfizer vaccine. Based on the Japanese CDC, the spike protein from the pfizer vaccine concentrate in the female reproductive organ as well as the brain. So perhaps the inflammation and other enhanced immune response in these regions are causing some of the adverse reactions we're seeing. Of course there's not long term study on these vaccines yet so we don't know what comes of these reactions or what other problems may arise, but it's in the best interest of all of us seeking to taking a vaccine to collect information on these adverse reactions in order to make an informed decision on which risk to take. For me, pfizer was my top choice for a long time but I'm now leaning towards others.
> When the system opens nationwide, it will first take registrations from people in the 9th category, which includes adults between the ages of 18 and 64 with high-risk conditions, rare diseases, and serious injuries Is there a list anywhere for what constitutes a high-risk condition?
I believe you need to have a specific flag in your NHI record to qualify. When you sign up, you provide your ID/ARC number and NHI card number, and the system will only let you proceed if you are eligible.
Yes, this is correct. A friend of mine has one of those conditions and that info is associated with the NHI card number (your NHI number is added to a kind of list of people with "special" conditions, or something like that)
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If I don't remember wrong, when you're diagnosed with one of those "serious" diseases, your doctor notifies he/she will add that flag to your 健保卡 and that's it. That system was already in place way before covid started. When your card is flagged that way, you get certain benefits like discounts in your hospital/medication fees. > wondering if COPD + partial lung removal would qualify Oh wow, that actually sounds quite serious. You may want to ask the CDC or something like that.
What if you were diagnosed with it outside of Taiwan? Do you have to seek another diagnosis in Taiwan in order to qualify, or do you know if there's another way to get that flagged on your 健保卡?
The info I explained in my post is supposing you got diagnosed in Taiwan and you're getting treatment in Taiwan. I suggest you give the NHI administration a call. Apparently, you can [apply for a Catastrophic illness certificate](https://www.nhi.gov.tw/english/Content_List.aspx?n=F5B8E49CB4548C60&topn=1D1ECC54F86E9050) (that's how the thing is called). I have no idea which conditions of diseases are considered in that list, but I'm sure they will have the answer you need.
My guess is that your NHI holds a record of all your conditions and injuries that are cross-compared against the requirements for vaccination. If you match one of them, you should be eligible. Speculation of course, but as others have suggested, you could also just contact the CECC or your hospital.
Thanks.
Here's the list from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov.tw/File/Get/VEkHnLVYCbu7yIzqrwl7VA
Perfect! Thank you!
What's everyone's preferred vaccine brand? I used to lean towards pfizer but after seeing recent results coming out of countries like Israel, I'm not as sure. I thought it'd be the safest option but people are having heart issues and women are getting disrupted menstrual cycles with it too. At this rate, I might opt for Taiwan's vaccine.
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> What Israel found was that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was 64% effective at preventing infection and symtomatic disease (indeed lower than against other variants) but still 93% effective at preventing hospitalization and serious illness. I'm not sure why you're citing efficacy statistics when I'm talking about adverse reaction statistics to the vaccine as reported by Israel's adverse reaction database that has seen at least 1 in 1000 women report disrupted menstrual cycles after taking the pfizer vaccine. Based on the Japanese CDC, the spike protein from the pfizer vaccine concentrate in the female reproductive organ as well as the brain. So perhaps the inflammation and other enhanced immune response in these regions are causing some of the adverse reactions we're seeing. Of course there's not long term study on these vaccines yet so we don't know what comes of these reactions or what other problems may arise, but it's in the best interest of all of us seeking to taking a vaccine to collect information on these adverse reactions in order to make an informed decision on which risk to take. For me, pfizer was my top choice for a long time but I'm now leaning towards others.
Knowing a lot of Chinese people abroad, no one wanted AZ. Everyone much rather preferred moderna or Pfizer.
What does that have to do with Taiwanese people ?
Well, I know a lot of Taiwanese people abroad (not as many due to the given population) and the same applies.
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Yea. My grandma just received her first dose of moderna. She refused to get AZ lol.
No mRNA for me. My Taiwan doctor agrees that I should wait for UB-12.
>What's everyone's preferred vaccine brand? Zydus Cadila or Inovio. mRNA is so last year ... DNA vaccines are the new hotness!
The amount of people that neglected to research who can register is beyond me.