More than 7-million expired Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines could be wasted by July - Vaccine hesitancy, corruption, and conspiracy theories and disinformation slow down uptake of Covid-19 vaccines
vaccine uptake improves soon, the country will be saddled with well over seven million expiring doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by July — with nobody to offload them onto., the deputy director general of health and the man responsible for both Covid-19 containment and the roll-out of the National Health Insurance.that vaccines were arriving in 1.
“This nonsense of 80% natural immunity is a red herring. Remember that non-vaccine immunity from wild virus infections is not long-lasting — and it’s not nearly as strong as vaccine immunity. So, one must be really careful of saying we have 80% immunity,” he said. “So, we’re not doing well. We’d really like to see close to 80% or 90 % of the older groups vaccinated. The UK is sitting at 87% and some countries at more than 90%,” she added. Professor Barry Schoub, chairperson of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19 vaccination, cites lack of access, apathy, anxiety and conspiracy as the four main drivers of hesitancy.
“The recent Medical Research Council finding on vaccine hesitancy, which talks to how we can intervene, is a lot of folks saying, ‘I’ll vaccinate if you do.’ This talks to people who have influence over others.
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