An Afrobarometer survey found South Africans are deeply suspicious of Covid-19 vaccines, with nearly half of participants preferring prayer to the jab
A nurse vaccinates a teacher at the Rabasotho Community Centre in Tembisa, Johannesburg. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES/SEBABATSO MOSAMO
The US took just over two months to administer 58-million vaccines — equivalent to SA's population — and by the end of April, just over four months into their rollout, 144-million people had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and over 100-million were fully vaccinated, at a rate often exceeding 1.5-million doses a day.
Constraints, including structural or psychological barriers like the inconvenience of being vaccinated and the fear of injections, are also prevalent. The vaccine hesitant also tend to calculate that their risk from vaccination outweighs the risk of infection and disease. Finally there is the absence of feeling a sense of collective responsibility .
We can’t wish every component of vaccine hesitancy away, but we can and should focus on minimising structural constraints to vaccination — and ensuring that the jabs that are administered are effective. But if the cold chain is broken at any point from arrival to administration the vaccines become ineffective.
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