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Europeans fear vaccines (Photo: REUTERS / Radovan Stoklasa)
More than half of the survey participants in Poland, Bulgaria, as well as 41% in France, do not plan to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Reported by Reuters.
According to the agency, the skepticism of many Europeans stems from the speed at which COVID-19 vaccines have been tested and approved.
Polls carried out in Poland showed that at this time less than 40% of the country’s inhabitants plan to get vaccinated. Only half of the staff at the Warsaw hospital signed up, where the country’s first vaccine was administered.
In Bulgaria, 45% of residents said they would not be vaccinated, another 40% plan to wait to make sure there are no negative side effects. According to a survey by Alpha Research, less than one in five Bulgarians in the priority group plans to voluntarily vaccinate.
An IPSOS survey in 15 countries, published on November 5, found that 54% of the French would be vaccinated against COVID if it were available. This figure was 64% in Italy and Spain, 79% in the United Kingdom and 87% in China.
A more recent IFOP survey, which had no comparative data for other countries, showed that only 41% of people in France are ready to get vaccinated.
According to a 2013 study, the traditional method of creating vaccines – injecting a weakened or killed virus or part of it to boost the body’s immune system – takes on average more than ten years. It took more than eight years to develop a pandemic influenza vaccine and almost 18 years to develop a vaccine against hepatitis B. At the same time, the Modern coronavirus vaccine has moved from genetic sequencing to the first injection into a person. in 63 days.
“We look back at the achievements of 2020 and say: this was the moment when science really took a leap forward,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of clinical research at the University of Oxford, who partnered with AstraZeneca to develop the vaccine. against coronavirus.
