By Edward Ihejirika
AS a public health physician, development and health policy management consultant I like to state unequivocally that vaccines save lives and clearly people need to take vaccines this time to stay alive; but what is more important are the protocols advised for prevention. This alone can cut down the spread of COVID-19 in great proportions.
In the year 2010, then as Programme Coordinator in a US Department of HHS funded programme in the Upper Valley Region comprising the States of New Hampshire and Vermont, we supervised the administration of ‘seasonal’ flu shots and people would turn up and take them. Even then, there was mild suspicion about vaccines and low turn out on some days but overall more people got immunised.