A very small percentage of individuals who were recently hospitalized and later died of COVID-19 at Princess Margaret Hospital received one dose of the vaccine, according to Dr. Nikkiah Forbes, director of the National HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Programme.
Forbes made the comments while a guest on the Guardian Radio 96.9 FM talk show “Morning Blend” with host Dwight Strachan yesterday.
“Let me just say, vaccines against COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, will stop people from being hospitalized and dying of COVID and they’re also effective in preventing people from getting COVID,” she said.
“I just want to say before you move on and ask me other questions, that we have been looking at this at one of the sites I work at, Princess Margaret [Hospital].
“When we look at the trends of those being hospitalized and dying of COVID since the vaccine rollout, those people that have been hospitalized in our units and died, none of them were fully vaccinated.
“Just about all of them were unvaccinated and a very, very small percent — maybe one to two percent — one dose.”
The Bahamas has reported 12,889 COVID cases since March 2020.
Two hundred and fifty-one COVID-related deaths have been reported. The most recent death was that of a 43-year-old man, a resident of New Providence, who died on Sunday.
The government began the rollout of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on March 14, 2021.
Sixty-five additional deaths have been reported since then.
As of July 2, 95,992 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered in The Bahamas.
Fifty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty-one people have received at least one dose of the vaccine. A total of 36,261 people have been fully vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine.
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