Jamaican doctors debunk Prime Minister’s claim on Covid-19 virus

According to the team of physicians, Prime Minister Holness had inaccurately stated that: "Those who don't take the vaccine remain the host population for the reproduction and mutation of the virus". 

The twelve doctors explained that the statement was inaccurate for two primary reasons.

"None of the vaccines that have been administered or are currently available in Jamaica prevent infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons can harbor and shed the virus, and this is particularly true of the Delta variant which is now the predominantly prevalent strain,” they stated, while adding: “It is a long- established unequivocal medical fact that mutations occur when a virus is replicating in infected persons. This may occur whether the infected individual is vaccinated or unvaccinated." 

For these two key reasons, the doctors stated that it would be illogical to institute mandatory vaccination based on this inaccurate assertion.

The signatories to the letter are Dr Wayne West, Dr. Doreen Brady-West, Dr. Kay Bailey, Dr. Sheree Simpson, Dr. Daniel Thomas, Dr. Brittanie Clacken, Dr. Andre Williams, Dr. Arthur Malcolm, Dr. Michael Abrahams, Dr. Jennifer Mamby-Alexander, Dr. Arlene Rose, and Dr. Kelly-Lois Gooden-Morgan.