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Covid: Pub vaccine passports ‘risk social division’ – BBC News
Forcing pub-goers to prove their jab status could make vaccine hesitancy worse, a scientist says.
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Forcing pub-goers to provide a vaccine certificate in a bid to encourage younger people to take a jab could be “counterproductive”, a behavioural scientist has warned.
Prof Stephen Reicher, who advises the government, said the policy risked making vaccine hesitancy worse.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this week a review was considering jab passports for places like pubs.
But the PM conceded there were “ethical problems that need to be addressed”.
It came as Mr Johnson…
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