Vaccine Hesitancy: When Political Miscommunication Replaces Scientific Benefit/Risk Assessment
Autor: | Christian Rausch, Peter J Pitts, Hervé le Louët |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Commercial Biotechnology. 26 |
ISSN: | 1478-565X 1462-8732 |
DOI: | 10.5912/jcb1012 |
Popis: | Around the world, scientists, manufacturers and governments jumped into the race to develop a vaccine to combat COVID-19 and its associated lockdowns. A global response was required since defeating the pandemic requires global alignment. The availability of COVID-19 vaccines has always been a major concern for the WHO particularly in low and middle-income countries. While the vaccine development programs moved successfully forward, another problem, vaccine hesitancy, became a worrying factor in the movement towards herd immunity in many countries. Several factors contribute to this predicament. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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