Why People Reject Vaccination—and How to Change Their Minds

Posted on AllSides December 20th, 2021
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As of early December, about 8.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered worldwide. That makes the COVID-19 vaccination effort easily the largest public health intervention in history—and yet, its success has been mixed. The world’s most vulnerable countries have been denied their fair share of vaccination doses, while in wealthier countries, the main problem is not access but hesitancy, often concentrated in specific regions of anti-vaccination sentiment. For example, the eastern German state of Saxony has full vaccination rates of only around 56 percent, and an infection rate more than twice as high as...

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/18/vaccine-hesitancy-covid-us-solution/

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