Some 11 doctors have written to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to issue a directive for the nationwide vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic to be paused.<\/p>\n The doctors say the risks associated with these vaccines, per the data studied so far, outweigh the potential benefits, if any.<\/p>\n In their petition dated Monday, January 10, 2022, the doctors, who call themselves as Concerned Ghanaian Doctors, cited how the UK and Israel are still battling with the virus despite a high vaccination rate of their respective populations.<\/p>\n \u201cThese countries have very high vaccination rates, currently deploying booster programmes, yet they are struggling to get the virus under control especially with these new variants,\u201d the doctors observed in the jointly-signed petition.<\/p>\n \u201cAssuming as a country we are to vaccinate more than 50% of our population, are we going to continue with perpetual boosters every 3 to 6 months in an attempt to maintain vaccine induced immunity for this disease?<\/p>\n \u201cWhere then is the end point when these vaccines do not stop infection or the spread of Covid-19? Is this financially feasible for us as a nation?\u201d<\/p>\n They contended that the case fatality rate is not as high as anticipated especially given the fact that not many citizens are testing.<\/p>\n For them, the vaccines becoming a mandate is only a ploy by some pharmaceutical companies to rake in profits.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is safe, effective, affordable, freely available early treatment for Covid-19, vaccines are no longer a priority.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take a genius to recognise the financial benefit of pharmaceutical companies in demonising potential early, effective treatments.<\/p>\n \u201cIf these medications do work, that\u2019s wonderful in the human race\u2019s fight against Covid-19. However, they are practicably placebos if they don\u2019t work. Why the suppression and demonising of these early treatments then, if the concern is health.<\/p>\n \u201cConsidering all these, wouldn\u2019t it be prudent to pause and ask ourselves whether these novel vaccines are necessary in the first place,\u201d they quizzed.<\/p>\n For them, Ghana, and for that matter Africa, must lead the way in the fight against Covid-19.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the relevant metrics show that Ghana and Africa at large have done better than most of the world with respect to the pandemic even before the advent of these vaccines.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is possible the rest of the world are rather to learn from us.\u201d<\/p>\n The doctors are Dr Timothy Oblijah Armah, Dr Bismark Opoku-Asare, Dr Faisal Adjei, Dr William Ghunney and Dr Bernard Boateng Adjei.<\/p>\n The others are Dr Doreen Oye Agyei, Dr Michael Agyemang-Wiredu, Dr Richard Fayah and Dr Sedem Cyril Klinogoh.<\/p>\n The rest are Dr Phil Dowuona and Dr Emmanuel Awuttey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Akufo-Addo took the first jab of the coronavirus vaccine Live on TV Some 11 doctors have written to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to issue a directive for the nationwide vaccine rollout in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic to be paused. The doctors say the risks associated with these vaccines, per the data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/60418587.295.jpg\" "\\"President")
President Akufo-Addo took the first jab of the coronavirus vaccine Live on TV<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n