Lies and realities in the vaccine race

The huge global demand for limited vaccine supply coupled with an ever-evolving science and a worried public bombarded with misleading and incomplete information has posed challenges to policymakers as they chart an inoculation roadmap to arrest the Covid-19 health crisis and put the country’s economy back on track. Sensational and skewed social media posts and experts with conflicts of interest confound government’s attempts to canvass views from authoritative sources.