Two weeks ago the ministry of Health and Wellness graciously accepted a donation of 4,800 doses of a Pzifer Bio N Tech BI-VALENT vaccines from the US government.
But, the Centers for Disease Control has declared that the bivalent is no longer authorized for use in the United States because it's not effective against the current COVID strain.
They are now recommending a monovalent vaccine. Concerns have been raised that the ministry is offering vaccines to the public which offer little to no protection against the current variants circulating. When we asked the Minister to clear up these concerns, he told us that they would not have accepted a vaccine that is not safe for usage.
Kevin Bernard, Minister of Health and Wellness
"I don't think the United States government would just or the notion is that they are just dumping things that they don't want on us. It is a proven fact that these vaccines have been used. What happened as you know, there are several versions of vaccines that have been done and if you notice, we only got a small quantity of the vaccine 1200 doses of them and we accept them because at the end of the day it's still being used in other parts of the world it's not something that was banned as I mentioned it's the adult Pfizer vaccines. Something that was produced had gone through all the necessary requirements. I understand from where we are that it is safe for us to use."
"Yes we accepted these donations, but the ministry of health and wellness as I said, would not have accepted these, if it is not fully recommended. As you are saying, the CDC mentioned there are certain things that you may hear on the media or on social media that sometimes it's not necessarily all that you know we have to be very conscious of a lot of fake news, and so as I mentioned, we accepted those vaccines because it was genuine And it is a vaccine that can still be utilized within the country."
Of course we know the vaccine is safe for usage, but is it effective? Is it recommended? Well, it is not in other countries, so.
