One of the main discussions at the World Health Organization’s Global
Vaccine Safety Summit in 2019 was about vaccine hesitancy.
Experts
at the conference emphasized that not only are citizens around the
world becoming more hesitant to vaccinations, but so are doctors, other
health professionals and scientists.
In fact, the WHO listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the biggest threats to global health security.
This fact was emphasized at the conference by Professor Heidi Larson, the Director at the Vaccine Confidence Project.
“The
other thing that’s a trend, and an issue, is not just confidence in
providers but confidence of health care providers, we have a very wobbly
health professional frontline that is starting to question vaccines and
the safety of vaccines…”
Who would have guessed that concerns
about vaccine safety was even on the radar of health professionals prior
to COVID? Not many people. This ignorance was largely due to the one
sided, one size fits all type of messaging and marketing that’s
surrounded vaccines for decades.
It’s common to hear about the
benefits of certain vaccinations, but it seemed as if everybody was
oblivious to the safety and efficacy concerns that were (and are) being
raised by legitimate science....<<<Read More>>>...