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Brit Trogen1,2, Liise-Anne Pirofski3
1New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Med (New York, N.Y.)
|April 14, 2021
Abstract:
Vaccines are one of the greatest medical innovations of all time, but there has been skepticism about them throughout history. Although initial concerns about scarcity increased public demand for COVID-19 vaccines, as supply meets demand, vaccine hesitancy may become a defining theme of the next stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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