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Gregory C. Mason

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Will a successful Covid-19 vaccine reduce vaccine hesitancy?

April 22, 2020 by Gregory Mason

Part of me wants to believe that Covid-19 is scaring the pants off everyone.  But some family members are anti-vaxxers (the pejorative term for vaccine hesitancy) and I see their attitude to the present virus, I am less hopeful.

My medical friends are certain a vaccine will emerge in the next 18 months, and for good reason.  There is a full court press by many labs and governments and science knows so much more than it did a decade ago.

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