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Simon Nicholas Williams, Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University

Vaccine hesitancy is one of the greatest threats to global health – and the pandemic has made it worse

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The COVID pandemic has disrupted many areas of routine healthcare including, importantly, childhood vaccination.

The pandemic saw levels of essential childhood immunisations decline in more than 100 countries around the world, leading to outbreaks of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, cholera, diphtheria and polio.

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