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Originally Posted by Maggy
To be truthful it's hard to work that out..with all the naysayers and armchair warriors who seem to think they are experts in the field posting definitive statements.
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I’m not aware of anyone being a naysayer or “armchair warrior”. It’s healthy to be sceptical of political spin when there’s competing science floating around.
The pandemic is over a year old and likely to extend to the end of this year and for the developing world well into next year. South Africa, or anyone else, taking an extra few weeks to see emerging data from the UK will make little fundamental difference to the end result.
Every individual should take the first vaccine they are offered, it’s the only one they are likely to see before Autumn. However at a national or international level I’m reluctant to place our scientists on a pedestal to the extent I’d apply their knowledge to everyone else’s situation that will vary depending on variants, vaccine supply and the infrastructure to rapidly deploy.