The Philippine experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a rich source of learning for the Department of Health in responding to global public health crises. Being one of the government’s anti-COVID vaccine experts during the pandemic, incumbent Health Secretary Dr. Teodoro Herbosa vows to build upon these lessons learned on emerging out of the pandemic.
Currently, Herbosa disclosed, the DOH is re-distributing vaccines to areas with outbreaks of pertussis while additional vaccines to augment the diminishing supply of the DPT vaccine have yet to arrive. Although the DOH estimates the DPT vaccine stock to run out by May due to the sporadic outbreaks of pertussis, Herbosa counts upon the assurance of the Serum Institute of India to deliver 4 million doses of DPT by July this year.
“Parang giyera, pag may naiwan sa measles vaccines, lahat matatamaan,” Herbosa paraphrased Murad’s retort to him. Murad once headed the separatist rebel group that is now bound in a formal peace pact with the government. Herbosa could only blame the advent of anti-vaxxers who vigorously fought the mandatory COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic for the decline in immunization rate as well as the psychosocial effect of the pandemic.
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