No one questions the safety of flu vaccines or meningococcal vaccines that pilgrims for haj and umrah take, do they? Did you know their efficacy is MUCH lower than the Covid-19 vaccines we have in the market today? Yes, the Covid-19 vaccines are new, but the platforms are neither new nor unknown, and this pandemic has brought people of science to work together in a way never seen before. In a raging pandemic where each person has a critical role to protect each other and humanity, we must make every endeavour to comply with public health measures. Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood is the prime minister’s special adviser on public health

Source: The Edge Markets May 31, 2021 05:03 UTC