Acta Scientific Medical Sciences (ASMS)(ISSN: 2582-0931)

Review Article Volume 6 Issue 4

Misinformation and COVID Vaccine Hesitancy: The Viral Threat to COVID Vaccine Efficacy

Moki Chris Usani*

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Ministry of Public Health, Biaka University Institute Buea, Cameroon

*Corresponding Author: Moki Chris Usani, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Ministry of Public Health, Biaka University Institute Buea, Cameroon.

Received: December 07, 2021; Published: March 10, 2022

Abstract

Not long after the corona virus introduced itself in Wuhan, China, with all the subtlety and finesse of a bull in a China shop, efforts towards creating and distributing a vaccine reached fever pitch. In fact, just a few months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic (on March 11, 2020), two major pharmaceutical and biotech giants: Pfizer (in partnership with BioNTech) and Moderna, Inc., announced their success following the primary efficacy analyses of their phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Keywords: COVID-19; World Health Organization (WHO); Wuhan

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Citation

Citation: Moki Chris Usani. “Misinformation and COVID Vaccine Hesitancy: The Viral Threat to COVID Vaccine Efficacy”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 6.4 (2022): 57-63.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Moki Chris Usani. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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