Thu 02 September 2021:
Prince Harry blaming overwhelming “mass-scale misinformation” for Covid vaccine hesitancy.
In a virtual appearance at the GQ men of the year awards, Harry presented the prize to Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, Prof Catherine Green and the Oxford/AstraZeneca team.
Prince Harry warned: “Until every community can access the vaccine and until every community is connected to trustworthy information about the vaccine, then we are all at risk.”
He said: “As people sit in the room with you tonight, more than a third of the global population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. That’s more than 5bn shots given around the world so far.
“It sounds like a major accomplishment and in many ways it is, but there is a huge disparity between who can and cannot access the vaccine.
“Less than 2% of people in the developing world have received a single dose at this point. And many of the healthcare workers are still not vaccinated.
“We cannot move forward together unless we address this imbalance as one. At the same time, families around the world are being overwhelmed by mass-scale misinformation across news media and social media, where those who peddle in lies and fear are creating vaccine hesitancy, which in turn leads to divided communities and eroding trust.
“This is a system we need to break if we are to overcome Covid-19 and the risk of new variants.”
He added: “Where you are born should not affect your ability to survive when the drugs and knowhow exist to keep you alive and well.”
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