This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Tuesday 23 November 2021
The Unvaccinated
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford University) has confirmed that Covid patients in UK Intensive Care Units (ICU's) are now almost all unvaccinated (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/covid-patients-in-icu-now-almost-all-unvaccinated-says-oxford-scientist). Pollard goes as far to say that "Generally, Covid19 is no longer a disease of the vaccinated; vaccines tend to limit its suffocating affliction, with a few exceptions". The exceptions are, of course, some of the aged and people with underlying health conditions. One might wonder why, given this clear message, unvaccinated folk don't flock in their droves to immunisation centres? Any excuse seems to be used. I suspect that Pollard's involvement in the production of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine will be held against him in antivaxx circles. It just seems, sometimes, that science and logic can't ever win.
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