COVID-19: vaccination in a developing country

Abstract

The common good and public service are important to gain public trust especially in the midst of a pandemic of misinformation about vaccines and miracle therapies being spread on social media. Controversies in the government of a developing country do not help to control the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. Is it only the government’s responsibility or can doctors and medical students promote the truth with appropriate communication strategies to decrease COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?

Predictors of Intention to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 in a Peruvian Sample

“… 10 , 11 Therefore, understanding the factors that influence vaccination in developing countries, with scarce economic resources, low levels of education, health systems on the verge of collapse, distrust toward manufacturing countries, fear of side effects, and serious misinformation problems such as Peru, is of vital importance to develop solid public health policies. 12 …”

Vaccine delivery systems toward lymph nodes

“…It is worth noting that the full protective immunity usually requires multiple vaccine injections, which will bring increasing difficulties for full vaccination and decrease the compliance of patients due to increased injection pain. Particularly, in some developing countries, the limited medical resources and patient access significantly hampered the patients from getting necessary protective immunity against infectious diseases, which is more vital under the context of COVID now [97] , [216] . Thus, replacing a multiple-dosing vaccine with a single injection vaccine with comparable or better vaccination efficacy will be of great significance in fighting infectious diseases globally, which is more impactful in developing countries with resource-poor setting by increasing vaccine coverage.…”

COVID-19 contagion across remote communities in tropical forests

“…Although improving communication access can promote such behaviors and facilitate data collection 43 , who receives information and how it is used may shape the adoption of unfamiliar individual behaviors 44 . This applies also to communication for promoting COVID-19 vaccination 48 , 49 . The effectiveness of self-protective behaviors will likely depend on the combination of individual and community behaviors, and government policies such as transportation restrictions.…”

“…Although improving communication access can promote such behaviors and facilitate data collection 43 , who receives information and how it is used may shape the adoption of unfamiliar individual behaviors 44 . This applies also to communication for promoting COVID-19 vaccination 48 , 49 .…”