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Dr Beckie Tagbo, MBBS, FWACP(Paed), FCAI, PhD
Dr Beckie Tagbo, MBBS, FWACP(Paed), FCAI, PhD

This persuasive speech argues that vaccine preventable deaths are an avoidable waste of life. The speaker, an immunization expert, has witnessed many needless child deaths firsthand. Promising children who could have contributed greatly to society succumbed to diseases like measles and rabies before age 5. While concerns about vaccine safety are understandable, one must seek information from credible sources and weigh the risks and benefits of vaccination versus the risks and benefits of disease. Opting out of vaccination is a gamble that could cost one's life, as the immunity can only be developed if one survives the disease. Together, through vaccination, we can minimize this waste of innocent lives.

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PERSUASIVE SPEECH - IS THE WASTE AVOIDABLE? LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Beckie Tagbo
The millions of innocent children lost to vaccine preventable diseases, how long before we arrest it? IS THE WASTE AVOIDABLE? Hello Everyone. I am Beckie Tagbo, an immunization field expert with decades of experience in Vaccinology including experience in field work, vaccine clinical trials, vaccine research, training and mentoring of undergraduates, postgraduates and immunization field implementers, policies and advocacy, a professor of Pediatrics / child health & Vaccinology. I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. One thing continues to bother me
PROMISING CHILDREN Promising children who could have become country presidents, UN Secretary Generals, World Bank Presidents, great inventors and potential Nobel Prize winners who could have changed our world in a way we may never know, because they succumbed to diseases and death before their 5th birthday, deaths that could have been prevented by vaccination! I am a practicing Paediatrici an / clinician I have watched countless numbers of innocent children die needlessly from easily costless preventable deaths.
OH NO, ANOTHER DEATH? As I watch them come into the emergency room moribund and I finally certify them dead after fruitless efforts on resuscitation, I muse to myself Oh no, another death? Poor baby! Poor mother! What do I tell these parents? Very traumatic indeed to both doctor, nurse and patients parents
I STILL REMEMBER HIM 1 I still remember him, a young boy. He had a dog bite weeks back, was treated at a drug store but no further evaluation of patient or dog was made and no rabies vaccine was given. 2 He then presents to me weeks later at the emergency room with very high fever. Before you could say Jack Robinson, all the signs of rabies disease began to manifest. 3 Soon after, the boy died! How terribly devastated I was. if only he took the rabies vaccination! I lamented. What a waste!
IF I RECOVER, I WILL TAKE THE COVID19 VACCINE Another case: If I recover, I will take the COVID19 vaccine, said a man who had refused the vaccine but had come down with severe COVID19 disease and was admitted in the ICU. His wife had taken the vaccine and all her efforts in persuading him to be vaccinated failed. But he did not survive the disease to have a second chance to take the vaccination. He died at ICU It is people who are alive that take vaccinations not dead people
I AM WITH YOU IN YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT VACCINES You need to be alive before you can mount immune response to a disease or infection. If you succumb to the disease, too bad! The issue of natural immunity no longer arises. Is the waste of lives avoidable? It becomes more devastating if vaccination would have prevented this waste! It is even worse if vaccination is available and parents failed to vaccinate their child. Most devastating, if their reason is that they do not believe in vaccination. Yes, I am with you in your concerns about vaccine safety and other issues and experiences. It is perfectly normal and human to have concerns about vaccination.
TAKE A STEP FURTHER TO SEEK CLARIFICATION FROM CREDIBLE SOURCES However, do not stop there, go further to seek credible information from credible sources to clarify your concerns and then make the right decisions. Yes, you want to make the best choice for your health and that of your family. We all do, not just concerns about vaccination but about other products like drugs- antibiotics, antimalarials, antihypertensives, anti- inflammatory agents. Yes, we have concerns about their safety and efficacy because we want to make the best choices for our families and ourselves.
EVEN WATER HAS ADVERSE EVENTS! Can I remind you of the millions of lives lost in the pre-vaccination era? People died in droves, millions. So should the waste continue in the face of life-saving vaccines? What a waste it would have been to lose more than the 3million lives currently saved annually by vaccination. More deaths could be averted if we all rise to the occasion. I humbly request your permission to dialogue with you for a moment. Is it not a gamble to opt out of vaccination on account of potential adverse events? What is it that does not have side effects? Even water has adverse events!
COULD YOU WEIGH BENEFITS AGAINST RISKS It could be a gamble to reject vaccination and accept antibiotics! What a gamble to opt in for antimalarials and antifugals and opt out for vaccines. To opt in for steroids and organ transplants and opt out of vaccination. It would be nice to weigh disease and vaccine benefits against their risks for an informed decision We make life choices by weighing the benefits against the risks because nothing made by humans is perfect. Yes, we weigh the benefit of drinking water versus risk of drinking water. Benefit of flying in the air versus risk of flying of road travel, of surgery, of blood transfusions, anti-asthma drugs, and so on.
ONE NEEDS TO BE ALIVE TO DEVELOP IMMUNITY What a gamble to refuse immunity without disease while accepting uncertain immunity with disease, that is, if you survive the disease. Because a dead man does not develop immunity. Yeah What will be the benefit if the immunity-giving disease kills the victim before he/she develops immunity? It sure has killed so many, aborting their lofty plans of developing natural immunity. One needs to be alive to develop immunity. A dead man has zero immunity advantage.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE What an irony to embrace air travels, sea travels and land travels but hesitate to vaccinate! Millions die from road traffic accidents yearly and no one hesitates or blinks an eye to hop into a car with all family members to travel. Yet people hesitate to vaccinate? Even water has adverse events! Common, people, wake up and smell the coffee! Pinch yourself onto sound reasoning. You have your right to make your life choices.
WHICH WEIGHS HEAVIER? Vaccines Risks Benefits Disease Risks Benefits It does not only benefit you but your family, community, the vulnerable, and all of us. What a needless waste but what a huge gain if we all VACCINATE! Weigh the benefits of vaccination against the risks. Weigh the benefits of diseases against the risks. Then weigh the risks of suffering the disease against the risk of vaccination. You would realize that weights are in favour of vaccination. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/treatments-vaccines/vaccines-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines-development-evaluation-approval-monitoring
WE CAB FIGHT THIS NEEDLESS WASTE TOGETHER Take side with safe and life course vaccination and actively support safe and voluntary vaccination. Yes, we will vaccinate now and again! We will take side with life course vaccination! Together, we can minimize this needless waste of lives! Beckie Tagbo Nov 2021 Jesus saves

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  • 1. PERSUASIVE SPEECH - IS THE WASTE AVOIDABLE? LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Beckie Tagbo
  • 2. The millions of innocent children lost to vaccine preventable diseases, how long before we arrest it? IS THE WASTE AVOIDABLE? Hello Everyone. I am Beckie Tagbo, an immunization field expert with decades of experience in Vaccinology including experience in field work, vaccine clinical trials, vaccine research, training and mentoring of undergraduates, postgraduates and immunization field implementers, policies and advocacy, a professor of Pediatrics / child health & Vaccinology. I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. One thing continues to bother me
  • 3. PROMISING CHILDREN Promising children who could have become country presidents, UN Secretary Generals, World Bank Presidents, great inventors and potential Nobel Prize winners who could have changed our world in a way we may never know, because they succumbed to diseases and death before their 5th birthday, deaths that could have been prevented by vaccination! I am a practicing Paediatrici an / clinician I have watched countless numbers of innocent children die needlessly from easily costless preventable deaths.
  • 4. OH NO, ANOTHER DEATH? As I watch them come into the emergency room moribund and I finally certify them dead after fruitless efforts on resuscitation, I muse to myself Oh no, another death? Poor baby! Poor mother! What do I tell these parents? Very traumatic indeed to both doctor, nurse and patients parents
  • 5. I STILL REMEMBER HIM 1 I still remember him, a young boy. He had a dog bite weeks back, was treated at a drug store but no further evaluation of patient or dog was made and no rabies vaccine was given. 2 He then presents to me weeks later at the emergency room with very high fever. Before you could say Jack Robinson, all the signs of rabies disease began to manifest. 3 Soon after, the boy died! How terribly devastated I was. if only he took the rabies vaccination! I lamented. What a waste!
  • 6. IF I RECOVER, I WILL TAKE THE COVID19 VACCINE Another case: If I recover, I will take the COVID19 vaccine, said a man who had refused the vaccine but had come down with severe COVID19 disease and was admitted in the ICU. His wife had taken the vaccine and all her efforts in persuading him to be vaccinated failed. But he did not survive the disease to have a second chance to take the vaccination. He died at ICU It is people who are alive that take vaccinations not dead people
  • 7. I AM WITH YOU IN YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT VACCINES You need to be alive before you can mount immune response to a disease or infection. If you succumb to the disease, too bad! The issue of natural immunity no longer arises. Is the waste of lives avoidable? It becomes more devastating if vaccination would have prevented this waste! It is even worse if vaccination is available and parents failed to vaccinate their child. Most devastating, if their reason is that they do not believe in vaccination. Yes, I am with you in your concerns about vaccine safety and other issues and experiences. It is perfectly normal and human to have concerns about vaccination.
  • 8. TAKE A STEP FURTHER TO SEEK CLARIFICATION FROM CREDIBLE SOURCES However, do not stop there, go further to seek credible information from credible sources to clarify your concerns and then make the right decisions. Yes, you want to make the best choice for your health and that of your family. We all do, not just concerns about vaccination but about other products like drugs- antibiotics, antimalarials, antihypertensives, anti- inflammatory agents. Yes, we have concerns about their safety and efficacy because we want to make the best choices for our families and ourselves.
  • 9. EVEN WATER HAS ADVERSE EVENTS! Can I remind you of the millions of lives lost in the pre-vaccination era? People died in droves, millions. So should the waste continue in the face of life-saving vaccines? What a waste it would have been to lose more than the 3million lives currently saved annually by vaccination. More deaths could be averted if we all rise to the occasion. I humbly request your permission to dialogue with you for a moment. Is it not a gamble to opt out of vaccination on account of potential adverse events? What is it that does not have side effects? Even water has adverse events!
  • 10. COULD YOU WEIGH BENEFITS AGAINST RISKS It could be a gamble to reject vaccination and accept antibiotics! What a gamble to opt in for antimalarials and antifugals and opt out for vaccines. To opt in for steroids and organ transplants and opt out of vaccination. It would be nice to weigh disease and vaccine benefits against their risks for an informed decision We make life choices by weighing the benefits against the risks because nothing made by humans is perfect. Yes, we weigh the benefit of drinking water versus risk of drinking water. Benefit of flying in the air versus risk of flying of road travel, of surgery, of blood transfusions, anti-asthma drugs, and so on.
  • 11. ONE NEEDS TO BE ALIVE TO DEVELOP IMMUNITY What a gamble to refuse immunity without disease while accepting uncertain immunity with disease, that is, if you survive the disease. Because a dead man does not develop immunity. Yeah What will be the benefit if the immunity-giving disease kills the victim before he/she develops immunity? It sure has killed so many, aborting their lofty plans of developing natural immunity. One needs to be alive to develop immunity. A dead man has zero immunity advantage.
  • 12. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE What an irony to embrace air travels, sea travels and land travels but hesitate to vaccinate! Millions die from road traffic accidents yearly and no one hesitates or blinks an eye to hop into a car with all family members to travel. Yet people hesitate to vaccinate? Even water has adverse events! Common, people, wake up and smell the coffee! Pinch yourself onto sound reasoning. You have your right to make your life choices.
  • 13. WHICH WEIGHS HEAVIER? Vaccines Risks Benefits Disease Risks Benefits It does not only benefit you but your family, community, the vulnerable, and all of us. What a needless waste but what a huge gain if we all VACCINATE! Weigh the benefits of vaccination against the risks. Weigh the benefits of diseases against the risks. Then weigh the risks of suffering the disease against the risk of vaccination. You would realize that weights are in favour of vaccination. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/treatments-vaccines/vaccines-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines-development-evaluation-approval-monitoring
  • 14. WE CAB FIGHT THIS NEEDLESS WASTE TOGETHER Take side with safe and life course vaccination and actively support safe and voluntary vaccination. Yes, we will vaccinate now and again! We will take side with life course vaccination! Together, we can minimize this needless waste of lives! Beckie Tagbo Nov 2021 Jesus saves