Vaccine Facts part 4 - vaccine confidence and herd immunity are teamwork

Welcome to part 4 of our Wold Immunization Week podcast series. Today we talk about vaccine hesitancy: where it stems from, how is misinformation spread and what we can do to increase vaccine confidence (and why we should do so). We're also explaining the importance of herd immunity through vaccination and why achieving this requires team effort. 

We'll leave you with the wise words of our researchers and we hope you enjoy today's podcast: 'Herd immunity is a way of understanding the great potential of vaccines that drugs do not have. Beyond individual protection, it can protect even those who are not vaccinated in a cost-effective way. So we must understand that when people refuse  a vaccine they are not only refusing their individual protection but they are putting those around them at risk, including those who would be happy to be vaccinated but are unable to do so, and leaving room for the pathogen to reproduce. With many people saying no, it becomes impossible to stop the spread of the pathogen.' 

Featuring Maite Sainz, researcher at University College Dublin (Ireland), Eliza Kramarska, researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, and Lorenzo Bossi, researcher at ImmunXperts (Belgium).