In the latest Veterinary View column, Andrew Prince, who has been working at the Garth Pig Practice for just over a year, explains why he is expecting a greater focus on vaccination in 2021 and beyond.
With a COVID-19 vaccine now already in use in the UK, 2021 will be the year of the vaccine. Mass vaccination of a population with the aim of improving health, welfare and the economy – if only we’d thought of that first!
Many of us in the pig industry (and our feathered colleagues) have looked on this week as conversations we would normally have ‘in-house’ about efficacy, duration of immunity, the logistics of administering thousands of doses etc. become mainstream. And while we await further COVID vaccine developments, perhaps this is a good time to reflect on those vaccination schemes that we use and have control of.