The NA warned: "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”Today, it is increasingly being applied to the ongoing fight against Covid-19. Many of them now hold the view that herd immunity should no longer be the main consideration to overcome the scourge. Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, for example, has described herd immunity as "mythical” and "not a possibility”. Warning that vaccinations should not be based around herd immunity, he predicted the advent of "a variant which is perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations”. Current caretaker Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who announced this last Thursday, again cited achieving herd immunity as the reason.

Source: The Star August 18, 2021 03:11 UTC