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#SpeakingOut – Senior doctors urge: Get vaccinated

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by Professor Sir Errol Walrond, Dr. Carol Jacobs, Dr. Richard Ishmael, Dr. R Jeffrey Massay

We the undersigned “senior” physicians would like to lend our collective voice to the effort to get the population of Barbados, indeed our neighbours in the region and the wider world to get vaccinated as an essential component in the efforts to control the pandemic of COVID 19.

We are aware of the conflicting information that the public is receiving in their television news and social media feeds, and sometimes from formerly revered public health institutions.

We have lived our professional lives working with you and have seen your hesitancy in the face of a variety of serious illness. We have had to advocate for and to you, serious treatments that could have bad side effects and with no guarantees of cure.

We therefore empathise with those of you who hesitate to choose uncertainty, however, we are convinced that untimely deaths among your loved ones and friends can be prevented by getting vaccinated. Our statistics here show that most of those who have died have been unvaccinated.

Barbados has for over forty years insisted on vaccinations before entering primary school, secondary school and university in order to protect the lives of our children, the citizens of tomorrow.

The elimination of polio, tetanus, diphtheria, measles, mumps and rubella etc. by vaccines has been shown to be the right choice.

The global COVID pandemic is real.

The vaccines we have are new and are grounded in good science. They are helping to get the countries whose citizens are mostly vaccinated back to normalcy.

Yes, we will have to continue to mask up and to keep our social distancing, but these can only be given up when most of us have been vaccinated.

Join us in trying to get back to normalcy – get vaccinated.

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