Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a hospital in Coventry. Photo: AP
Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a hospital in Coventry. Photo: AP
Josephine Ma
Opinion

Opinion

As I see it by Josephine Ma

Covid-19 vaccines are on the way. But making them compulsory will only backfire

  • Transparency is the best way to counter public mistrust and misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers
  • It may be too early to say whether the 95 per cent efficacy rates reported for some drugs will last

Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma

Updated: 2:16pm, 9 Dec, 2020

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Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a hospital in Coventry. Photo: AP
Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a hospital in Coventry. Photo: AP
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