Last Updated on February 19, 2021, 5:56 AM AST by Anthony Morris
St Kitts and Nevis: Dr Hazel Laws, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the Ministry of Health, said the choice to take the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine is to protect yourself and others from the deadly COVID-19 virus.
Dr Laws explained this during her presentation at the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) COVID-19 Press Briefing on February 17 at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) headquarters in Lime Kiln.
In her presentation, she revealed her decision to take the AstraZeneca / Oxford University vaccine, which is already in the Federation.
She explained why her decision to take the vaccine and said that the vaccine reduces her risk of becoming seriously ill or dying.
‘If I get the disease, one of five things can happen to me, I can recover without any symptoms; or I may develop mild symptoms by coughing, runny nose, stuffiness and then recovery; I can become moderately ill and recover, or I can become seriously sick or die. ‘
She continued: “If I choose to take the vaccine against AstraZeneca / Oxford University, the scientists and clinical data assure me that I will be protected against serious diseases and the death of COVID.”
“Even when we vaccinate people, we will have to follow public health measures to wear our face mask, maintain adequate hand hygiene and keep a safe distance from others when we are in public,” the chief medical officer said.
“We will have to continue these essential public health options until a significant portion of our population has developed immunity to this virus, until a significant portion of our population has received the vaccine,” she added.
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