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Letter: Make covid-19 vaccines mandatory to go overseas? (2)

Published 9 September 2020

From Steven King, Crewkerne, Somerset, UK

The World Health Organization has overlooked the most important group in need of vaccination: mothers. I won’t dwell on the tragic consequences for a dead mother’s children, but ask the mainly male policy-makers to calculate the cost to the economy of the death of a primary carer. As someone over the age of 65, I would gladly give my vaccine to any mother anywhere.

Issue no. 3299 published 12 September 2020

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