Vaccine Hesitancy: When Political Miscommunication Replaces Scientific Benefit/Risk Assessment

Autor: Christian Rausch, Peter J Pitts, Hervé le Louët
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