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Vaccine Hesitancy

Nov 29, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,
As I travelled around Guyana to supervise a survey on conduct, I came across many Guyanese who have not taken the vaccine to protect themselves from the COVID-19 pandemic.  About 80 percent of the population has at least one vaccine.
Some 55 percent has two vaccines. It is not known what percentage has the booster shot. Vaccination provides great protection against death from COVID. Of the more than two million who died from COVID, more than 98 percent were not vaccinated. Those who were vaccinated and died had co-morbidities (meaning other illnesses). So the vaccines work.
As I found in my survey, more Africans and Mixed than Indo Guyanese are reluctant to take the vaccine. Some of the reasons given for vaccine hesitancy: leads to impotency and birth defects; reduces virility; can cause death; government can keep track of a person’s where about, among others.
While the public expresses hesitancy to be vaccinated and receive some support from opposition politicians, the politicians themselves have been fully vaccinated. No politician in Guyana died from COVID vaccine.
Several politicians were infected with COVID but those who were vaccinated recovered very quickly. It is incumbent upon all politicians to encourage their supporters to take the vaccine. There is no evidence that the vaccine leads to sexual impotency or birth defects or causes pregnant women to lose their babies.
Vaccines save lives! They strengthen the immune system against all COVID viruses. Please take the full dose and any available booster shot.
Yours truly,
Vishnu Bisram

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