State vaccines head blasts experts who called for AstraZeneca rollout in SA
Barry Schoub says use of vaccine with such poor efficacy would drain much-needed resources, break public trust and create a potential threat
12 April 2021 - 17:41
Barry Schoub, head of the ministerial advisory committee (MAC) on vaccines, has lashed out at other experts who said the country should have gone ahead with the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
In a strongly worded editorial in the South African Medical Journal, he said rolling out a vaccine with such poor efficacy would drain much-needed resources, break public trust and create a potential threat or further “escape variants” of the virus that causes Covid-19...
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