Episode 35 - Piotr Kramarz - The Solidarity of Vaccination

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

European Immunization Week (EIW) is marked across Europe every year in the final week of April. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of immunisation for the general health and well-being of the European and wider population.

To mark the start of EIW, we have invited the ECDC's Deputy Chief Scientist - Piotr Kramarz to talk about the importance of vaccination, the hurdles and current issues we need to overcome.

You can find ECDC's information on vaccines here.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.4	Hello, my name is Nicholas, and I'm your host for today's episode of ECDC on Air,
0:19.5	which is the podcast for the European
0:20.9	Center for Disease Prevention and Control. It's April 2023 and we are marking this year's
0:26.9	European Immunization Week under the theme a lifelong approach to vaccination, emphasizing
0:32.9	the crucial importance of vaccines for young children, but also stressing that vaccines are
0:37.8	strongly recommended also for adolescents, adults and the elderly.
0:41.3	With me here in the studio today is Piotr Kramash, who is ECDC's deputy chief scientist.
1:03.7	Hello, Piotr, glad to have you here again.
1:05.9	Hello, thank you for the invitation.
1:07.8	So I want to start off asking you, many countries around the world continue to see
1:12.3	outbreaks of diseases that could be prevented with vaccines.
1:16.3	Why is it that we still see so many of these outbreaks?
1:19.8	Well, vaccination is one of the greatest achievements of medicine.
1:23.4	The first vaccines were developed at the end of 18th century, but the bulk of them were
1:28.1	introduced in the 20th century and they led to a dramatic decrease in morbidity and mortality
1:35.0	from vaccine preventable diseases, meaning that the numbers of cases dropped after the introduction
1:41.1	of the vaccines and the number of deaths linked to these diseases.
1:46.0	But despite these successes, we observe in many European countries increasing levels of
1:53.0	hesitancy to get vaccinated, a decline in acceptance of vaccines, and following this we see
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