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MEDICC Review 2022; 24 (1)

Without accessible primary care, we are ''dangerously unprepared'' for the next pandemic

Language: English
References: 12
Page: 4-5
PDF size: 121.52 Kb.


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Polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and other deadly or debilitating diseases are routinely prevented and controlled with vaccines—when and where they are accessible. Characterized as one of the most eff ective public health interventions ever available, WHO estimates that immunization saves four to five million lives every year.
And yet. After another year working to contain the worst pandemic in living memory, evidence-based science and the life-saving vaccines it produces struggle to be heard above the din of bad (and fake) news. Anti-vaxxers and -maskers grab headlines; more transmissible variants travel the globe; vaccine inequity places everyone at higher risk; and the most economically vulnerable plumb even darker depths.


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