Building trust over time and reducing practical barriers for vaccines may increase uptake.
and COVID-19 vaccination among risk groups such as older adults in many Europe an Union/ Europe an Economic Area member states between 2023 and 2024 has been suboptimal, according toduring this period, whereas COVID-19 vaccination coverage among those aged 60 years or older varied between 0.02% and 66.1%. The median COVID-19 vaccine coverage of target age groups stood at 14%.
“We need to build trust as health regulators to collaborate with people and help them live healthy lives. People often say the anti-vaxxers are the problem, but the problem lies not with the population, but with the regulators. With the best of intentions, they sometimes erode trust by being overly confident in their messages,” he said. “If we ignore or downplay uncertainties today, the same uncertainties may come back and hit us on the head tomorrow.
“Surprisingly, there are no randomized clinical trials assessing the effects of vaccine boosters for both influenza and COVID-19. We can only assume that repeatedly low vaccine uptake may not protect unvaccinated high-risk patients,” Antoine Flahault, MD, PhD, director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, told Medscape.
He added that health authorities should “probably be more demanding” and ask vaccine producers to provide better evidence on whether vaccine boosters protect high-risk patients.
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