With the World Health Organisation finally accepting that the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer unmanageable (“but may never end…”), Jornal de Madeira today reports that the “large part of the Madeiran population” has already started handling the health threat their own way. Just 8% of residents responded to the booster campaign, most of them aged between 70-70, says the paper. The region’s deputy health director Bruna Gouveia is still appealing for people to ‘come forwards and be vaccinated’, citing the fact that ‘immunity against Covid-19 does not last’. But neither, it seems, does the public’s appetite for repeated vaccinations that neither stop people getting the illness, nor halt its transmission.
