LETTER: Why did SA’s government make the idiotic decision to give up Astra vaccine?
The reason must either be incompetence or financial gain
23 March 2021 - 13:28
Re-exporting the one-million Astrazeneca vaccines was an ill- considered, irrational disgrace in the face of the World Health Organisation recommending its use in SA and multiple investigations (including a 32,000 volunteer US trial) finding it safe and efficacious.
Even in the event that the vaccine is not fully effective against contracting the SA variant (as we were informed after a limited trial), it is understood to counter serious illness, hospitalisation and death...
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