VACCINATE, VACCINATE, VACCINATE!
IF THE theme song from Ghostbusters could be adapted to the fight against Covid it might go something like this: if there’s a weird virus/in your neighbourhood/who you gonna call? Shabir Madhi!
The good doctor’s number is the one everyone dials when they want to know something about the pandemic. Cases increasing? Call Shabir! A new variant running rampant? Call Shabir! Clarification needed about vaccines? Call Shabir!
His face has appeared on TV screens around the world, his authoritative voice has seeped from radio stations from Limpopo to London, his views have been tapped into by experts and government officials alike.
Little wonder then that the 55-year-old professor of vaccinology and dean of health sciences at Wits
