I highly recommend a read of this article as even if one disagrees with some of the conclusions it certainly provides much food for thought … https://theconversation.com/south-africas-vaccine-quagmire-and-what-needs-to-be-done-now-163784 I have previously opined on more than one occasion on the need to employ effective logistics to the COVID-19 Vaccine program and further, the need to employ every resource at the country’s disposal faced with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced by the delta variant of the virus and a potentially disastrous third wave of infections in South Africa certainly there is an argument that the current policy should be reviewed to alter the vaccination trajectory. I would prefer to see less…
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COVID-19 vaccination … it cannot be a government alone!
This week I accompanied my wife to apply for a new South African passport at a Home Affairs Office that I will not name but located within the Greater Cape Town area. The office opens its doors at 8am but when we arrived just after 6:30am on a midweek morning the queue stretched along the front of building and around a corner. This was where we joined the queue of South Africans patiently waiting in an orderly fashion in the dark for the doors to open. While most people were wearing masks there was no social distancing. Only as it became light did I notice the red lines painted on…
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The COVID-19 jab is here … but not for everyone
In mid-January 2021, I wrote a post entitled “Successful Healthcare Delivery … a missing link could be logistics” and at that time I referred to the then stated target of vaccinating 67% of the South African population by at the latest the end of 2021. It has now been admitted that the country will be unable to achieve this target and at best achieve a target of 40% by February 2022, as implementation has “lost a little time”, far removed from the “herd immunity” referred to by the Minister of Health earlier. While the inability of South Africa to procure vaccines due to “richer countries hogging vaccine supplies” and the…