Why Covid-19 vaccine rollout falls short of past global campaigns. Decades-old successes benefited from more trust in science, less political polarization, less complicated procedures. My piece via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/why-c…
NYC vaccinated 6m people in less than a month in 1947, Yugoslavia jabbed *18m in three weeks* in 1972, The Netherlands was a global vax leader with Swine Flu in 2009. Why does Covid-19 vaccination fall short of past achievements? wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Vax scarcity is a problem, but so is fading trust in public institutions and science, an underfunded healthcare infrastructure, a less capable government, the rise of vaccine skepticism and even political polarization. wsj.com/articles/why-c…
“I think the credibility of governments and the population’s trust in them has gone significantly down…and as a consequence the population doesn’t just line up and agree to be vaccinated,” said Moncef Slaoui, the mastermind behind Operation Warp Speed wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Dosing regimens, rigidly based on vaccine trials, and inflexible prioritization schedules have added complexity to the current rollouts. @c_drosten said this week that "German perfectionism" appeared to stand in the way of efficient mass vaccination wsj.com/articles/why-c…
“Second doses were often delayed in the past,” said Stanley Plotkin, who developed a number of vaccines, including the shot against rubella, one of the most successful in history. In some instances, such delays actually boosted recipients’ immune responses wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Rollouts have been particularly slow in the European Union. Despite a shortage of vaccines, millions of doses are languishing in storage due to logistical bottlenecks & reluctance by to take a shot that has occasionally caused strong reactions wsj.com/articles/why-c…
“Back then, we didn’t have people questioning advice from medical doctors, but now we have this postmodern belief that medical authority needs to be questioned, that one needs to seek information on the internet instead of lining up to take the vaccine” wsj.com/articles/why-c…
The U.S., Europe, the former Soviet Union and China routinely worked hand-in-hand to combat diseases in the past —a feature lacking in today’s pandemic that has exposed deep rivalries between blocs and even between friendly nations wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Today, Western governments and some of the scientific establishment have expressed skepticism about the Russian and the Chinese Covid-19 shots. “It’s just silly to marry political ideology with public health interventions," @EpiRen said. wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Vaccine policy often disregarded geopolitics - in the past. In 1960, the Soviets used the groundbreaking oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin, an American scientist, and the US then adopted the same medicine after it was trialed in the USSR wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Anti-vax campaigns are as old as vaccines, but they've never been so successful. German antivaxxer Immanuel Kant wrote smallpox inoculation could inject “bestial brutality;” his Catholic contemporaries feared that vaccination would spread Protestantism wsj.com/articles/why-c…
Today’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has suffered from polarization and incoherent messaging, as exemplified in the U.S. by the contradictory statements last year by President Trump and Dr. Fauci, the White House medical adviser wsj.com/articles/why-c…
This column about Germany’s struggle with vaccination argues that an outdated administration finds it easier to perpetuate a lockdown than to digitise medical agencies tagesspiegel.de/meinung/verkru…
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