Commentary: Could Vaccine Misinformation Lead to a Worldwide Health Crisis?

Could Vaccine Misinformation Lead To A Worldwide Health Crisis? - Health Policy Watch [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj26wKXNG1c?si=MfOvSdnRRoNbXhYM] Health Policy Watch

How did vaccines, once hailed as essential tools for global peace, security and international cooperation, become something that some now fear could kill them?

This is the focus of the latest episode of the Global Health Matters podcast, hosted by Garry Aslnyan. In an interview with author Peter Hotez, the discussion delves into how misinformation and politics, particularly in the United States, have led to a deadly distrust of vaccines.

Hotez and his colleague, Maria Elena Bottazzi, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for “their work to develop and distribute a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine to people of the world without patent limitation.” Hotez is a vaccine scientist, biochemist and paediatrician from Texas. He also wrote several vaccine-related books, including “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science.”

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