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The Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19 raises the question: “How does this prospective treatment provide efficient protection right now for frontline health workers, many of whom are dying despite the stringent protective measures?”
Answer: It doesn’t. We need something immediately to stop deaths. A simple Ghanaian initiative that is cheap, safe and efficient is in danger of being sidelined by certain “dimensions”.
Vaccine dimension
Responding to Rionach McCarron and Sandor Bako, who “.hope that the safety and efficacy of the vaccine can be shown as the trials progress”, Dr Joginder Anand, a former Consultant in Public Health England, asked, “Effective for how long? Two months? Six months?”