SINGAPORE - A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free, but the risk is small, and a person in fact puts himself, his loved ones and society at higher risk by not getting a jab, experts said at a Straits Times Reset webinar, The A-Z of Covid-19 vaccine, on Thursday (Dec 17). It s not a matter of saying, if I do nothing, we re okay. The weighing is really not between the vaccine and nothing, but the vaccine and the disease, said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and a member of the Ministry of Health s Covid-19 Vaccine Expert Committee.
A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free, but the risk is small, and a person in fact puts himself, his loved ones and society at higher risk by not getting a jab, experts said yesterday at a webinar on the A-Z of Covid-19 vaccines, part of the Straits Times Reset series.
“It’s not a matter of saying, if I do nothing, we’re okay. The weighing is really not between the vaccine and nothing, but the vaccine and the disease,” said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and a member of the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 Vaccine Expert Committee.
SINGAPORE - It is not new for vaccinations to have indemnity and no-fault compensation mechanisms in place to protect both the individuals and companies, while allowing millions to have access to the vaccines.
This looks set to be applied to Covid-19 vaccines as well, with Pfizer obtaining indemnity from the British government against any incidents as countries worldwide start securing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for their people.
Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries president Ashish Pal said at a Straits Times Reset webinar, The A-Z of the Covid-19 vaccine, on Thursday (Dec 17) that this is not new for vaccines. You really want to get to a point where you have a very, very effective use of your resources - people and dollars - so that vaccines are actually administered and populations start to acquire immunity. To achieve that, you want to look at two different mechanisms in place - indemnity and no-fault compensation, he said.
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A Covid-19 vaccination is not risk-free but the risk is small and a person in fact puts himself, his loved ones and society at higher risk by not getting a jab, experts said at a Straits Times Reset webinar series on the A-Z Of Covid-19 vaccines yesterday. It s not a matter of saying, if I do nothing, we re okay. The weighing is really not between the vaccine and nothing, but the vaccine and the disease, said Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, the director of the high-level isolation unit at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and a member of the Ministry of Health s Covid-19 Vaccine Expert Committee.
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