Paediatrician Alastair McApline says that the reasoning Angelo Ryan uses to justify this position in an M&G opinion piece is ‘specious and flawed’.
South Africa – and the world – is still in the grip of a frightening and deadly pandemic. We have tools at our disposal to mitigate the effects of this, and unquestionably the most robust are the Covid-19 vaccines. While our vaccine programme was initially slow to get started, it is now picking up steam, and as of 7 August, 8.5-million doses had been administered, with 8.
to get vaccinated is a scientifically valid and reasonable choice, and it’s here that things fall apart.
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