The Brabant GP Geert-Jan van Holten has read with disbelief the NRC interview published yesterday with RIVM vaccination head Hans van Vliet. Van Vliet thinks it will take a year to vaccinate the whole of the Netherlands. That is really nonsense, said the doctor.
After Pfizer released some happy news early this week that their corona vaccine has shown a success rate of over 90% so far, the world breathed a small sigh of relief – even if it was early test results. The RIVM was nowhere near as optimistic, the government health institute immediately announced in an NRC interview yesterday. Hans van Vliet, head of the national vaccination program of the RIVM, estimated in that it can take a long time before everyone in the Netherlands has had the injection.
Geert-Jan van Holten, general practitioner in Oss, North Brabant, does not understand the enormously long period that the RIVM is taking for the vaccination. That can be done much faster, he thinks. As an example he takes the fact that yesterday he gave one third of his patients the flu shot. That went with childish simplicity, he says. The whole job does not need to take a year, but in his view it can be done in just three or four days:
“Huh? I vaccinated 1/3 of my practice in 1 day today! With two fingers in the nose.
So if RIVM supplies the vaccines to the Dutch GPs, they will be delivered in half a week! ”
Van Holten also doesn’t want to know about GPs who complain that they are overworked. That’s “standard GP reflex,” he reports. In:
“But there is a flu scenario, GPs can organize this and the country is yearning for redemption.
So I’m just finished Calimero. ”
Who will forward Van Holten’s memo to RIVM? It’s high time for that vaccine!
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