Good jab, bad jab

The COVID vaccination program is now underway. Vaccine shortage is acute though we’ve been promised at least 61 million doses are coming shortly. Assuming adequate vaccine supply, our next concern will be the roll-outs with vaccination activities. As a volunteer vaccinator, I have seen the processes of the vaccination activities and it certainly leaves much to be desired.

Let’s make the process faster and easier if we are to rapidly ramp up our herd immunity or we will be wallowing in this mess for more months or years unnecessarily. We only have less than 20 million vaccinated fully and another few million with first shots. We started initial vaccinations in March this year, so we are running at less than 3 million per month vaccination rate. If we are targeting 70 million fully vaccinated Filipinos, it will take another year, maybe more if vaccine supply is a problem. But we have been vaccinating mainly in big cities where we have more staff to rely on to achieve this rather dismal vaccination rate.

Vaccination is voluntary. The fact that you showed up is proof you want to be vaccinated. Do we get legal consent from parents of children we vaccinate? No! It a social contract of mutual agreement and confidence. Why require consents that end up gathering dust in some warehouse? We’re even required to get another consent for the second dose. Another waste of time and effort.

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