Vaccination drive needs more clarity, communication

04 May,2021 04:23 AM IST |  Mumbai  |  The Editorial

The need for clarity and no confusion applies to all issues in the outbreak.

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It is ‘vex and the city' when it comes to vaccines. This paper ran a report on a recent webinar called Curing Covid Confusion. In the report, we highlighted the importance of bringing clarity to the common man on several COVID-related aspects. Questions flying in during that interactive session with the chief of a COVID centre at the forefront of the outbreak battle were a window to just how befuddled the public is.

The need for clarity and no confusion applies to all issues in the outbreak. The current vaccine runaround is confounding. Vaccinations for the 18 to 45 age group have opened, but seniors, even those in the first age group of 60 plus, are struggling to get their second dose. We have worried and stressed seniors, many of them out of their depth in a digital world, experiencing one cancellation after another as the vaccine crunch bites.

Moving from one centre to the other, quite clueless about what to do next, the anxiety levels are skyrocketing in an already fraught time. The second age group of 45 and above, is also seeing app windows closed and cancellations one after another.

The entire drive needs to be streamlined. The first senior batch should get their dose and the second one should have been going smoothly, so that the third batch then could take the vaccination.

Everybody needs to take the jab but this kind of muddled approach and opening up for other brackets without even completing the vaccination of previous ones is disconcerting and points to terrible timing and disorganisation.

There needs to be much more clarity in this drive, better communication and of course, in the end, more vaccines. Today, it is all about trying to open windows and more vexation.

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