Within the video above, John Campbell, Ph.D., a retired nurse educator, compares the contradictions between the World Well being Group’s directives relating to the necessity for COVID photographs in Africa and the precise state of affairs on the bottom.
As of December 12, 2022, the WHO was nonetheless calling on all international locations to get the COVID jab into not less than 70% of their populations.1 Its unique deadline for assembly this 70% threshold was mid-2022, however by June 2022, solely 58 of 194 member states had reached this goal.2
In response to the WHO, jab provides, technical assist and monetary assist had been missing in the course of the early days of the injection marketing campaign however, now, these obstacles have been resolved. Consequently, all international locations now have the power to satisfy the worldwide goal of 70%.
The “overarching problem” proper now could be the administration of the photographs, really “getting photographs into arms.”3 To deal with that, the WHO suggests integrating COVID-19 injection companies “with different immunization companies and alongside different well being and social interventions.” This, they are saying, will maximize influence and “construct long-term capability.”