An atmosphere of pandemic is affecting all over the world. In this pandemic, the whole world was affected without rich/poor, east/west distinction. The effect of the pandemic continues to increase, we can't fully see our future. But; whole the world is in anticipation of treatment; especially the Corona vaccine! Currently, the COVID-19 vaccine is expected (with great hope) for the prevention of the pandemic.
Interestingly; before the pandemic period, parental refusal of vaccines was a growing concern for the increased occurrence of vaccine preventable diseases in children. This anti-vaccination movement began to affect world health negatively. Especially child health!
Will the vaccine expectation/hope for the treatment of COVID-19 pandemic affect the parental refusal of vaccines positively?
Here in the US, many people have become extremely suspicious of government lies, amplified by the media. (I think the reader may have some sense of why). For folks who don't have the background to judge biotechnology for themselves, this suspicion can lead them to reject live-saving mandates, only because it comes from the government and their media amplifiers.
And so I'm afraid, more of the same (media-amplified government stories) are only going to generate more opposition, by the exact same mechanism they always have. To convince those kinds of folks peacefully, you would need to do something majorly different. Like instituting honesty in all government affairs. And then, very slowly re-building trust, perhaps over generations. It does not look like that's about to happen.
Now those anti-vaccine parents should worry about themselves- they are anti-society elements. They need to wait for a year even if vaccine comes and production will be enough to reach them.
Dear Nasir Mustafa, John Schloendorn and Subhash C. Juneja thanks for your valuable answers.
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Dear Ilhami Unluoglu,
Congratulations, a very interesting and good question. In my opinion, the relationship of the scale difference in the scope of various vaccination programs, including vaccinating children against various infectious and other diseases, is of key importance. Well, vaccination with the highly effective SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) Coronavirus vaccines is in fact common. As a rule, according to the adopted plans of the vaccination programs implemented, the overwhelming majority of citizens in the society are to be vaccinated. Until recently, the prevailing opinion was that children do not need and will not be vaccinated against Covid-19 disease. However, due to the fact that each successive form of Coronavirus is more and more contagious and there are more and more rare and harmless cases, but there are cases of children suffering from Covid-19 disease, so perhaps children will also be included in the vaccination program in the future. SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (Covid-19). Of course, this may change the parents' approach to the issue of immunizing children in general, i.e. with the use of vaccines for various infectious diseases. However, at the moment, little can be said about this, because so far children have not been included in the common vaccination programs for the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus. The key issue will be to diagnose the extent to which vaccination programs accelerated the process of acquiring social, collective population immunity in a society over an analogous process that would be carried out naturally without the use of vaccines. In addition, to what extent will the rate of Covid-19 disease fall, to what extent will the rate of mortality from severe Covid-19 disease fall in combination with the presence of certain comorbidities in individual deceased persons, and also far fewer deaths diagnosed as caused solely by by Covid-19 disease. An important issue is also how long the resistance is acquired. The next important questions, to which we do not yet know the full answer, are the following: Are the antibodies produced with vaccines identical to those produced by natural means? For which next more infectious variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), which will appear in a few weeks or months, the effectiveness of currently used vaccines will drop well below 50%? Will pharmaceutical companies manage to produce new, new versions of highly effective vaccines for new variants of Coronavirus that are being developed now and will be developed in the future? Due to the higher level of immunity of the child's organism to various types of infections, will pharmaceutical companies produce other versions of vaccines dedicated specifically to children? Is the information policy of mainstream media determined by the information message resulting from research conducted by independent research centers or by laboratories of pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines? There are many questions that should be fully answered in a few months at the earliest. Only then will it be easier to answer the question of this discussion more fully.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz, thank you very much for your detailed and informative answer.
Check https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250555
Also check https://www.unicef.org/stories/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-frequently-asked-questions
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