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Covid: Australia’s vaccine hesitancy worries medical experts – BBC News
Medical experts are concerned that low Covid infection rates may be leading to complacency.
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Australia’s troubled vaccine rollout has hit a potential new stumbling block – rising vaccine hesitancy.
This week a survey suggested about one-third of Australians said they were unlikely to get vaccinated, reportedly up from previous months.
The caution mostly centres around side effects and a lack of urgency given Australia’s low infection rates.
But hesitancy threatens to frustrate plans to open its borders, which…
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