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Health-care workers watch from a window as demonstrators gather outside Toronto General Hospital in September 2021 to protest against COVID-19 vaccines, mandates and restrictions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Politicizing COVID‑19 vaccination efforts has fuelled vaccine hesitancy

Zain Chagla, McMaster University; Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Stefan Baral, Johns Hopkins University

The antagonism driven by political interference in COVID-19 vaccination is fuelling hesitancy. Mass vaccination campaigns require public buy-in via trusted health-care providers and community leaders.

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