Conducting another school Pfizer vaccination drive and I'm incredibly saddened to see more than 50% of the eligible school children opting out of vaccination because of non consenting parents. #Covid19 #VaccinatingChildren #lka
Parents in Sri Lanka have always been trusting of the government health services and our childhood vaccination schedules have the highest penetrance in the region if not the entire world. #Pfizer #Vaccination #lka
If our school children aren't vaccinated, they're going to carry the virus to the vulnerable adults at home or pass it on to susceptible peers at school. Either case spells disaster to the healthcare system and our society as a whole. #COVID19 #lka #GetVaccinated
Vaccine misinformation & anti-vax narratives seem to have reached even the most rural of villages here. I cannot say why the parents have decided not to trust our healthcare system at this critical point in time when they have relied on us to take care of their children so far.
@HansikaHK I think the issue is more of confusing information than misinformation for parents in Sri Lanka. For example, if the @GovSriLanka message is that the vaccines stop transmission (as you say here) then many parents (incl those in villages) will be hearing differently from 1/2