Just under a third of South Africa’s remaining Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer were set to expire by July. Public health communicationAgainst this backdrop, public health communication had limited success. This massive effort only kicked in three months after the start of the public vaccination programme in May 2021, which would have likely benefited from earlier communications clarity and cover. If our public vaccination programme had started three months earlier, some of the devastating impact of the Delta wave may have been averted and thousands of lives saved. He led coordinated donor support to the Covid-19 vaccination programme from February 2021 to June 2022.

Source: Forbes September 19, 2022 23:37 UTC