The New Zealand Medical Association found that though mandatory vaccination programmes may result in slightly more vaccinations, they didn’t eradicate disease and they came at a high social cost. But there are those who have limited confidence in the health system and those who may profoundly mistrust new medical offerings, medicine, pharma or the healthcare system. Even a cursory search of history offers up problematic vaccination programmes. We need to support people with their own logistics so that they can make vaccination appointments. To be effective, vaccination programmes need a minimum proportion of the population to engage to achieve so-called herd immunity.

Source: The Irish Times December 08, 2020 01:01 UTC