Tagged: vaccine hesitancy

30% of New Zealanders are ‘vaccine sceptics’, so trust is key to COVID-19 vaccine roll-out - COVID-19

Guest Author • Dec 11, 2020 •

• COVID-19,
• mRNA vaccine,
• Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine,
• Vaccination Rates,
• vaccine hesitancy

Claire Breen, University of Waikato The emergency approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the UK and the imminent roll-out of several other vaccines in 2021 raises serious questions about New Zealand’s likely uptake of this vital public health response. Recent research into New Zealanders’ attitudes to vaccination suggest positions have become more polarised over the last decade, … Read More

WHO: ‘vaccine hesitancy’ is one of the top 10 health threats in 2019 - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Jan 17, 2019 •

• Health,
• immunisation,
• vaccine hesitancy,
• vaccines,
• WHO

You read that right. Vaccine hesitancy – “the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines” – is viewed by the World Health Organisation as one of the top 10 health threats we face in 2019. And worse, that hesitancy will have an effect on other threats in that top 10 list. Ebola and the potential … Read More