All posts tagged "disease"
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Aye of the needle: overcoming vaccine hesitancy
To end the pandemic, governments must persuade the vast majority of adults to get vaccinated – but apathy, health fears and conspiracy theories are holding down vaccination rates. Liz Heron
- Posted August 26, 2021
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Harvard group urges governments to focus on preventing pandemics, not responding to them
An expert group convened by the USA’s Harvard University has urged governments to focus on preventing the creation of new viruses, noting that preventive work is vastly cheaper than responding
- Posted August 18, 2021
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Getting everyone into the COVID-19 vaccination queue
Countries have made huge efforts to access and distribute vaccines – but to achieve ‘herd immunity’, they need to get them into the arms of the majority of their adult
- Posted July 14, 2021