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I am 75, have never been vaccinated, why now?

A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at Lurie Children's hospital in Chicago. [AP]

At 75, Muhammed Duale has neither received any childhood vaccine nor understood its benefits as an adult.

The elder from the nomadic Gosha community in Mandera County says: “I have never received any vaccines since I was born, and yet I do not get sickly, neither have I faced any health problem.”

Failure to receive vaccines can be described as ignorance, and Mr Duale concurs...