England’s medical director, Chris Whitty, was consulted on other countries’ management of the covid-19 vaccination process, and explained chile’s case, noting that “it is not enough to vaccinate people to end this and I think Chile is a good example of this.”
Whitty offered this statement at a press conference with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which made announcements of disconfinations in the country.
On the vaccination process, Johnson argued that the country has helped with immunizations in its dependent territories and that nearly 31 million people currently received the first dose.
In this line, England’s medical director spoke about the vaccination campaign in Chile and Israel, arguing that “Chile is an important example and Israel is another. They are two countries that have had an extensive vaccination campaign. In Israel the numbers have declined and remained down, while in Chile, where a great deal of effort has been made to vaccinate on a large scale, the same effect has not been had so far.”
“We assume that if you vaccinate a lot of people the problem goes away, but it’s not enough to vaccinate people so that this (the pandemic) is over and I think Chile is a good example of this,” Whitty added.
The expert also questioned: “Is it because of the vaccines used? Is it because of the moment they started deploying? Is it due to particular interactions with other variants? We don’t know yet,” to which he added that “we have to learn from these countries that are ahead of us in terms of vaccination.”
