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Trust in vaccines vital to halting pandemic: WHO – SBS News
An official from the World Health Organization says it is troubling to see growing signs of vaccine misinformation and mistrust.
As the world celebrates advances in vaccines against the novel coronavirus, a top WHO expert warned in an interview with AFP that public distrust risked rendering even the most effective treatments useless against the pandemic.
“A vaccine that sits in a freezer or in a refrigerator or on a shelf and doesn’t get used is doing nothing to help shorten this pandemic,” said Kate O’Brien, director of the World Health Organization’s immunisation department.
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