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cord-343219-0dwyv1vk	Gellin, Bruce	Why vaccine rumours stick—and getting them unstuck	2020-07-30		.txt	text/plain	1938	91	56	Why vaccine rumours stick-and getting them unstuck Infectious diseases have long shaped human history, from the plague of Athens (430-427 BCE) that killed around a third of the Athenian population, the Black Death in the 14th century that killed about 30-60% of all Europeans, and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic that took the lives of at least 50 million people globally. As only population-wide immunity will end the pandemic, there has been an unprecedented effort to rapidly develop safe and effective vaccines that can be deployed globally. Although many other measures-eg, surveillance, testing, contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, physical distancing, handwashing, provision of PPE, investments in resilient health and social care systems and research, and socioeconomic support, among others-are key elements in the COVID-19 response, a longer-term goal is the possibility of population-level immunity from a vaccine. But hope is not a strategy and there is a need to address the complex challenges related to vaccine hesitancy that Larson's book illuminates.	./cache/cord-343219-0dwyv1vk.txt	./txt/cord-343219-0dwyv1vk.txt