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Barbados’ ageing population, high rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and low vaccination rate could be the recipe for a local variant of COVID-19, warns president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr Lynda Williams.
Although Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George confirmed earlier this month that the Alpha variant (the British strain of COVID-19) was “fairly commonplace” in Barbados, she is renewing calls for a greater variant surveillance programme to determine what other strains are possibly circulating in the island.
Williams, a guest on
programme
yesterday, stressed the importance of knowing whether variants such as the highly-infectious Delta was prevalent, as that would determine if enough restrictions were in place to prevent further spread.
Misinformation driving vaccine hesitancy, medical professionals say
Article by July 25, 2021
Misinformation and misconstrued facts have played a major role in vaccine hesitancy in Barbados, even as the island grapples with a resurgence in COVID-19 numbers over the past few weeks.
Several medical professionals expressed this view during Sunday’s edition of
Down to Brass Tacks on
Voice of Barbados.
First Vice President of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Adanna Grandison, said she was concerned with the abundance of medical misinformation in the public domain, saying many vocal critics of COVID-19 vaccines have been using unsupported medical reports to cement their stance against the vaccines.
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The Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) is looking to significantly increase its public education drive to promote the importance of vaccination of employees, in the wake of the latest COVID-19 spike that has affected some business houses.
Chairman Edward Clarke told the DAILY NATION yesterday he expects that shortly, the market will see a demand for services from only vaccinated staff members, and for businesses to survive their employees would need to be better educated about the benefits of being vaccinated, then getting inoculated.
“We will continually try to influence workers to be vaccinated. But the truth is, there are still too many people in Barbados who are not vaccinated. At some time, people will only want to do business within business houses where staff are vaccinated. The market will eventually demand it,” he added.
BAMP urged for more restrictions in Barbados to mitigate COVID-19 spread
BAMP urged for more restrictions in Barbados to mitigate COVID-19 spread
The Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners preferred to imposed more restrictions after supporting the government decision of increasing the curfew timings. By increasing the restrictions in the country according to the BAMP, the country would be efficiently mitigating the effect of the COVID-19 virus. The president of the association, Dr Lynda Williams, stated that the association had requested for the curfew in the early hours as well as the more restrictions that would be posed on weekends and would be effective in decreasing the spread of COVID-19.