Ali Inayat, Ali Shahbaz, Iqbal Sehar
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Independent Researcher, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Jul 16;8:647294. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.647294. eCollection 2021.
By the mid of June 2021, after an almost 1.5-year-long COVID-19 pandemic that has significantly affected the world in multiple ways, various vaccines against COVID-19 have arrived and started worldwide. Yet, economic, (geo)political, and socio-cultural factors may influence its uptake at individual and country levels. Several issues will (and already have been reported in media) revolve around this vaccination regarding its accessibility, affordability, and acceptability at an individual level and a country level. Given that in this commentary, we provoke a discussion: Who-a country as well as the individuals-would have access to it, and who would economically afford it, and who would accept it? Centering these intriguing questions, we revisit the body of literature that explicates vaccine hesitancy, refusal, and resistance, and we also draw on the current literature and media reports about vaccination against COVID-19. We suggest that these backdrops need essential attention so that everyone can afford, accept, and have access to it. Otherwise, the current risk in the face of a year-old pandemic will continue.
到2021年6月中旬,在这场对世界产生多方面重大影响、持续了近1.5年的新冠疫情之后,多种新冠疫苗已问世并在全球范围内开始接种。然而,经济、(地缘)政治和社会文化因素可能会影响个人和国家层面的疫苗接种情况。围绕这种疫苗在个人和国家层面的可及性、可负担性和可接受性,有几个问题(媒体已经报道过)。在本评论中,我们引发一场讨论:谁——一个国家以及个人——能够获得疫苗,谁在经济上能够负担得起,谁会接受疫苗?围绕这些有趣的问题,我们重新审视阐述疫苗犹豫、拒绝和抵制的文献,并借鉴当前关于新冠疫苗接种的文献和媒体报道。我们认为,这些背景情况需要得到必要关注,以便每个人都能负担得起、接受并获得疫苗。否则,面对这场已持续一年的疫情,当前的风险将持续存在。