And the vaccine is a planet-saving enterprise. Godspeed to all who guide it.
John Williams
As we start road to recovery, it’s worth taking a look back
It is timely, as we enter a new year and hopefully a healthy era, to consider the life-saving value of vaccines.
The history of the eradication of TB from Ireland’s recent past is most relevant as a template for the crucial part played by inoculation.
Since the late 19th century, 750,000 people died in Ireland from tuberculosis right up to and including the 1950s.
Medical archives tell us this was due to poor housing/malnutrition, and general rudimentary health treatments for those times.