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Informed health policy needs to understand why ‘vaccine scepticism’ is rising
The reasons for distrust of governments’ responses to the pandemic cannot be put down solely to plain ignorance or wild conspiracies. KEVIN OVENDEN explains why a Marxist approach can assist our thinking

SCEPTICISM in Western countries about taking some future coronavirus vaccine is growing even as the pandemic advances.

It is way beyond a minority fringe of “anti-vaxxers” opposed to all inoculation. 

Public health professionals warn it cannot be answered just by shouting “stupid” at millions more people.

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