Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS Conversations on

Coronavirus, The Vaccinators.

As debate continues around the unvaccinated, we bring together women who are working hard

to protect lives during the pandemic.

We also connect two people in the US and the UK who initially refused a vaccine before

they caught COVID-19, an experience that left both of them close to death and dependent

on drugs and medicine from health workers.

I had no idea what was going into me then, when they were saving my life the same as I

don't know what's in the vaccine.

But silly, isn't it?

You kind of overthink one thing, but not the other.

According to the World Health Organization, getting vaccinated could save your life, and

COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against serious illness, hospitalisation and

death.

As we see record numbers of infections in different countries, governments are moving quickly.

In recent days, for example, Italy has made vaccines compulsory for the over 50s.

Various approaches are being taken around the world, but the end goal is the same.

Get more people jabbed.

The effect is that more than 30 million vaccines are administered every day.

So two years into the pandemic, what's it like to be part of that global team effort?

Okay, Grindley is the director of COVID response at your community health in Melbourne, Australia.

She sent us this message.

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