Roland Schoeman ‘schooled’ for telling health professor to ‘do some research’

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Schoeman has apparently since reached out to Prof Moshabela and 'apologised'.

One Twitter user suggested South Africans should try to live with the virus because there will be many variants in future. Moshabela agreed and said this needed to be done with vaccination and other interventions. deputy vice-chancellor of research and innovation at UKZN to “do some research”.And how well are extremely high vaccination countries doing relative to lower? Look at states like Florida, wide open sporting events, music events. [The] industry is thriving and not even 70% vaccinated.

, you're scared and afraid, a lot is at stake for you and yours. Now, given the outcome of your research, what is your proposed solution? That we be like Florida?” As for being scared and afraid 🤣 Well. No. I had Covid. I have recovered. As have those who are near and dear to me.Give us time to make time to make sense of this new variant, and in the meantime we'll take all the precautions necessary to contain, and vaccination is top of our list. Oh yea, we have amazing researchers, as you well know by now.😉Yes yes, I have taken those into account. Does not change my recommendation for mandatory vaccination. The devil is in the detail...

 

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