Doctors speak on the theory of herd immunity as in whether it will actually help us in the long run or not. Read the copy to know what the doctors have to say.
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+ It seems to me the folks in Manila are picking on Cebu yet again.
Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia recently revealed that there are plans to charge her with insubordination because she allegedly refuses to comply with Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease guidelines on arriving overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs).
Why? Because the governor decided to adapt the guidelines to the local situation? I hope they realize that what’s good for Manila may not necessarily be good for Cebu. And vice versa.
At any rate, Garcia is not breaking any law since the IATF guidelines are just that. Guidelines.
By HANA BORDEY, GMA News
Published May 25, 2021 8:18pm We appeal.to the IATF to increase the amounts of vaccines to be given to the regions. I made this appeal weeks ago and I m making this appeal again today as cases are alarming. Vaccinations are key to protection and herd immunity, Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri said Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Tuesday asked the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) to deliver more vaccines to the regions as he expressed concern over the uptick of COVID-19 cases in Northern Mindanao. “I made this appeal weeks ago and I m making this appeal again today as cases are alarming. Vaccinations are key to protection and herd immunity,” Zubiri, who hails from Bukidnon, said in a text message to reporters.
Published May 25, 2021, 5:25 PM
Senators on Tuesday, May 25, called on government to ramp up its efforts in inoculating Filipinos against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
A senior citizen is inoculated with AstraZeneca’s COVID -19 vaccine in Paranaque City on April 5, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/ MANILA BULLETIN)
Senator Risa Hontiveros said the Interagency Task Force (IATF) on the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease must fulfill its target of vaccinating at least 60 percent of the Philippines’ population by the end of 2021.
In a statement, she said the current inoculation rate is “way off track”.
“Mangangalahati na ang taon. Saan na pupulutin ang ipinagsisigawan nilang ‘better Christmas’ kung ganyan kakonti pa lang ang nababakunahan sa buong bansa (We are almost into the middle of the year. Where will we get that ‘better Christmas’ that they are touting with the rate of the vaccinations in the country),” Hontiveros said.