Dr. Pickering appeared as part of a panel in a webcast entitled ‘Let's Talk COVID-19 Vaccination Live Forum’ hosted by Karia J. Christopher and streamed live on the Facebook page of JTV last evening July 22, 2021.

“I hate to say but I am going to say it anyway… a number of my close friends have said that the BVI and especially the younger generation needs to pay attention to the word hubris,” he said.

“We had done well, we were doing, well we took it for granted and we started to become probably filed with our own pride that we had we had done better than most people and now we are where we are,” Dr Pickering added.

Dr Kedrick D. Pickering hinted that given all that has happened, it should not take much to convince anybody that the vaccine works.

COVID-19 outbreaks & deaths

The Virgin Islands in the last two weeks has seen an incredible spike in what authorities believe to be the Delta Variant of the COVID-19 virus, and it has also resulted in several deaths moving from 1 existing death at the start of July 2021, to 23 as of July 20, 2021.

Dr Pickering hinted that given all that has happened, it should not take much to convince anybody that the vaccine works.

“I find it really difficult to put it in words that there's nobody in the BVI at this point in time who hasn't been affected by death, no of us, we are a small community,” he added.