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Opinion – Julio Abramczyk: The Covid vaccine beat stubbornness

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Anyone who is against the vaccine is stubborn. And mostly refuses to accept the benefit that science offers.

Inappropriate concepts affected the health of just over 20% of people living in Portuguese-speaking countries, according to a study published by Alvaro F. Lopes de Sousa, from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Lisbon and collaborators at USP/RibeirĂ£o Preto; federal universities of Bahia, PiauĂ­, Sergipe and CearĂ¡; and universities of SĂ£o TomĂ© and PrĂ­ncipe and Angola, in Vacines magazine.

Disinformation by electronic means and negative political polarization about the origin of some vaccines also negatively affected the efforts of health authorities to immunize the population in SĂ£o Paulo.

Even so, with just over 70% of the population vaccinated with the first dose of one of the vaccines, the decrease in deaths and hospitalized Covid-19 cases is proof of the effectiveness of the vaccination.

This positive finding, however, should not dispense with the continuity of the necessary care with the virus: keeping social distance, wearing a face mask and washing hands with soap and water frequently.

Several survivors of severe cases confessed that they had not taken the vaccine because they did not believe in its effectiveness or because of fear of reactions to the immunizing agent.

They are paying a high price for the decline in their quality of life resulting from the residual effects of the infection.

The same problem currently occurs in Russia and Germany, with an increase in cases of unvaccinated people hospitalized because of Covid.

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