Theresa Goodwin, Author at Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network

Theresa Goodwin

Theresa T. Goodwin is a broadcast journalist and Senior News Reporter based in the twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda. She has over 15 years of experience covering a wide range of issues including, but not limited to politics, social issues, and developments in Health, Education, and the Environment and Investigative pieces. Mrs. Goodwin also has a keen interest in human interest stories which chronicles the life and achievements of the ordinary man. She is currently employed with Newsco Limited Observer Radio and Newspaper as a News Producer, Reporter, and presenter providing content for radio news bulletins, newspaper, and online. She is also a wife on mother who values family and goes above and beyond to ensure quality time is spent with her entire family. She is a member of the Lions Club- a local non-profit organization that lobbies on the behalf of the poor and vulnerable.

2023 Special Reports

Pandemic-era Dip in Childhood Vax Rates Sparks Concern

By

Jermine Abel and

Theresa Goodwin | August 27, 2023

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the Caribbean had a vaccination problem. About 10 years ago, childhood immunisation rates began to slip below the World Health Organisation’s recommended 95 percent, leaving the region vulnerable to a potential re-emergence of deadly diseases like polio, measles or mumps. When the pandemic hit, those rates plummeted further in many countries. “If you look at the Caribbean as a whole, we find that of the more than 11,000 children younger than one year who live in the Caribbean, almost one in ten did not receive all of their vaccine doses,” Dr. Margherita Ghiselli, an immunisation advisor with the Pan American Health Organisation, told the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network during a virtual PAHO media briefing in April. Much of the rest of the Americas faces a similar predicament, which health officials often blame on a Covid double-whammy: First, movement restrictions during the pandemic limited access to routine medical care; and second, misinformation associated with the Covid shot has made people more reluctant to trust any vaccine.

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