Low vaccination rates across the globe due to COVID-19 ‘fatigue’

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“Vaccine fatigue” in the wake of COVID-19 lockdown policies is being blamed as the source of the dropping rate of vaccination against respiratory diseases in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world.

“Too many people are in need of serious medical care for flu, for COVID, when we can prevent it,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s interim director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness, told Reuters.

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