SCIENTISTS: Covid-19 vaccine inaction risks biggest man-made health failure since Aids outbreak
Leading figures say it "beggars belief" that SA has left itself reliant on Covax facility and call on government to make vaccine advice public
02 January 2021 - 16:06
The world is in the grip of a huge resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which SARSCoV-2, the coronavirus, appears to have produced a variant suspected of such great transmissibility that even the most stringent attempts at mitigation by non-pharmaceutical intervention are failing to contain the spread.
More chillingly, the increased spread of the virus is generating a corresponding acceleration in the numbers of people getting infected and, by extension, is exposing health systems in even the best resourced countries to an overwhelming burden with which they’re increasingly unable to cope...
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