SHOULD I GET VACCINATED: Yess...a

 

Hi everyone,

Hope that while reading this, you and your family are safe and sound during this pandemic situation.

As I am working in the healthcare sector and pharmaceutical industry (biologics and vaccines) for the past few years and having handled clinical trials regarding biologics and vaccine myself, I have been coming across lots of myths/rumors around the vaccines, clinical trials etc. But due to the current pandemic, the myths have taken new turn.

 India is a multicultural, multi-religion land having people from all the walks of life with different kind of mindset. 😊

 It is because of the vast diversity amongst our countrymen that you can hear all sort of myths regarding the COVID Vaccines, be it gender related (vaccine leads to sterilization in females), religion related (COVID won’t happen to a particular religion or people of this religion will be more affected) or science related (this brand of vaccine is more effective as compared to the other one)..... Well as a researcher I know all this is just crap...👩

 I recently saw in some news channel that when the healthcare workers reached a village to vaccinate them, people ran away (don’t remember the name of the channel or village). It was quite painful to see that they are ready to die with COVID but don’t wanna get vaccinated.

One more incident: This week when I went to buy groceries, I saw many young educated guys and girls not wearing masks gathering together and celebrating, having laughs. On the other hand, a vegetable vendor was urging to people to wear mask and asked them for social distancing. Few people think that we won’t have COVID because we don’t eat fast-food (yes.. another myth) etc.

I have seen numerous such incidents since the COVID pandemic started. List is quite large to be captured here.. I am sure you all must have seen yourselves.

It is at times like these that I feel we have failed. I being in the pharmaceutical industry know that we are working very hard to make and supply the vaccines to community and incidents such as these make me think we have wasted our efforts. The Govt. of India is really trying hard to get our country 100% vaccinated  and bring back everything to normal but this can’t be achieved without the support of all of us.

We all can do our best to try and educate people like these the importance of vaccine and drive away fears related to it. COVID will not discriminate between us.. it will affect each gender, each religion each country, each age in a similar manner.

 Our only weapon to combat the virus is #GETTING VACCINATED.