Don’t hesitate… vaccinate! (and wash your hands, of course)

Vaccines have been one of the biggest success stories of modern medicine. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that at least 10 million deaths were prevented between 2010 and 2015 thanks to vaccinations delivered around the world. Many millions more lives were protected from the suffering and disability associated with diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, whooping cough, measles and polio.

In short, there is worldwide medical consensus that vaccines are safe and necessary. Currently, all eyes are on the world’s scientists as the race is on to develop a vaccine that can give protection against the coronavirus.

Strangely, in modern times, vaccination rates have been dropping across the developed world.