The COVID-19 Vaccine Question.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Question.

The world in late 2019 woke up to the news of the deadly Corona Virus, and this virus has proved with time that it does have the capacity to take lives like nothing in our recent past, this is especially scary when one considers that the Corona Virus did this despite the advancement in the medical sciences. To date, the Corona Virus has been reported to have infected over 115 million people, causing over 2.5 million deaths worldwide.

Today, however, claims have been made of the advent of vaccines designed to impart some form of immunity to those who get vaccinated with the vaccine.

The acceptance of this group of vaccines is not coming on as smoothly as was expected by world leaders due to uncertainties generated by the authorities' refusal to communicate all the details of the various research efforts to the populace who incidentally are the beneficiaries of the vaccine.

In such situations, communication plays a salient role in quelling the anxieties that could result in the minds of people, especially relating to the possible outcomes such as the effectiveness of treatments, side effects, related policies, and outcomes. This necessity cannot be overemphasized. 

Considering that lives are involved, such healthcare decisions are laced with so much uncertainty. Besides the obvious risks that healthcare professionals are exposed to, the uncertainty built around the associated probabilities also come to the fore, so the unprecedented pace at which these vaccines are being generated and administered around the world are sure to heighten uncertainties in the minds of people, these uncertainties may include a lack of adequate information regarding the chance of benefits obtained from treatment, disagreements between experts, and insufficient evidence to convince the populace.

It, therefore, comes as no surprise that a lot of rumors concerning the safety of the vaccine has been propounded, for instance in India, the vaccine is rumored to contain bovine extracts thus making it a no-no for Muslims, there is also the added belief that the vaccine is laced with a microchip designed to act as a vehicle through which people will be subjected to mind control.

The interesting thing about these rumors is the fact that they are not being peddled by the illiterates alone, as a matter of fact, they are being strengthened by public figures whose opinions are considered relevant enough to sway the beliefs of the masses, for instance, a politician, Ashutosh Sinha, of the opposition Samajwadi Party, from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh said 

"I think the vaccine may contain something which can cause harm. You can become impotent, anything can happen."

Another group admonished Muslims to reject all attempts to vaccinate them with the COVID-19 vaccination because they claimed that one of its makeup was a pork product, the pork gelatin, a claim that has been denied.

The question now is that, is this vaccine really safe to take?

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