To anyone repeating the "B.1.1.529 is due to a lack of vaccine sharing" line: South Africa is not vaccine limited, and hasn't been for months. They've been vaccinating children 12+ for a month. Anyone there can get vaccinated just by showing up. The problem is hesitancy.
A friend of mine from SA messaged me the other night as I was going to sleep, to complain about the mess over there. He has multiple comorbidities, but almost nobody around him is vaccinated. Lots of cases of companies even banning vaccinated people because of "spike shedding".
His company is making everyone (incl. software developers) work at the office. Not for work-related reasons - so they can do extracurricular "bonding activities". A coworker has an adopted child with HIV (immunocompromised & vulnerable) who sought an exemption. Exemption denied.
My friend, feeling sorry for the scared father, decided to overrule HR and gave him permission to work from home, rather than to just come in so coworkers can drink together or whatnot. HR complained to upper management. He now faces a disciplinary hearing.
Across most of Africa, vaccination is highly limited by supply, not demand. But in South Africa, the struggle now is against vaccine hesitancy. And surveys suggest that this story will eventually be repeated in many other countries across Sub-Saharan Africa.
News from yesterday:
reuters.com/world/africa/e…
Again: vaccine supply remains a huge problem in much of the world. But not in South Africa. That problem falls on vaccine hesitancy.
reuters.com/world/africa/e…
Again: vaccine supply remains a huge problem in much of the world. But not in South Africa. That problem falls on vaccine hesitancy.
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