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Pakistan’s Polio Playbook Has Lessons For Its COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout – WUWM
The pandemic and polio are colliding in Pakistan. It's definitely harder for the country to keep up its efforts to wipe out this highly contagious
The pandemic and polio are colliding in Pakistan.
It’s definitely harder for the country to keep up its efforts to wipe out this highly contagious disease. (Pakistan is one of the few pockets in the world where it’s still circulating.) But the lessons learned from its polio effort are proving helpful for the coronavirus vaccination campaign.
The backstory
First, a bit of background is in order.
The pandemic isn’t the only obstacle to the polio effort. Four years ago, Pakistan was celebrated for…
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