Coronapod: How vaccine complacency is plaguing 'COVID zero' strategies
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A handful of states around the world have pursued 'COVID zero' strategies. Through a combination of intensive lockdowns, travel restrictions and comprehensive test and trace systems, regions like Tonga, New Zealand, Taiwan, mainland China and Western Australia managed to keep the virus at bay. But now many of these countries are facing new outbreaks on a scale they have not yet seen, and it is being driven in part by vaccine hesitancy. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss how a successful public health campaign can breed new problems when it comes to public perception of risk, and ask how vaccine complacency might be avoided in the future.
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| 1:04.0 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:10.8 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:15.9 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:24.0 | We're entering a new era now. We have new COVID strategies. There's some new unknowns, and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:29.9 | Hello and welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm Noah Baker and joining me after quite a long gap from the show is our Asia Pacific Bureau Chief Nikki Phillips. |
| 1:36.8 | Nikki, how are you? |
| 1:37.6 | I'm well, thank you, Noah. |
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