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Let's face it: Only a vaccine will slay Covid-19 for good

Vaccines are always controversial when it comes to disease control largely because it pits the minority (the scientists who develop them) against the majority (the general population) for whom they are intended for use.
But truth is unregulated science is more harmful than no science and it is understandable that people ask pertinent questions regarding vaccines – under normal circumstances.


This may not be the case this the year because 2020 because has been anything but normal.
Usually, the church is extremely vocal when scientific interventions aimed at achieving family planning or certain vaccines with the potential to protect millions of people against certain diseases are mooted. The most recent a stand-off between science and church was when the Catholic Church went toe to toe with the government of Kenya regarding a vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus, which is known to cause cervical cancer. The church argued that the vaccine in question had above normal levels of human chorionic gonadotropin hormone that would render teen girls, who were the target of the vaccine, barren.

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