Promoting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA

Omer, Saad B.; Benjamin, Regina M.; Brewer, Noel T.; Buttenheim, Alison M.; Callaghan, Timothy; Caplan, Arthur L.; Carpiano, Richard M.; Clinton, Chelsea; DiResta, Renée; Elharake, Jad A.; Flowers, Lisa; Galvani, Alison P.; Lakshmanan, Rekha; Maldonado, Yvonne; McFadden, SarahAnn M.; Mello, Michelle M.; Opel, Douglas J.; Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein; Salmon, Daniel A.; Schwartz, Jason L.; Sharfstein, Joshua M.; Hotez, Peter J.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(21)02507-1

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“…These findings may relate to the telephone intervention being offered at a point in the pandemic when most unvaccinated patients had already formed strong opinions related to vaccination, and when patients facing logistical barriers to vaccination in our healthcare system had already had opportunities to receive relevant assistance with scheduling, visit reminders, transportation, etc. This points to the possibility that the relatively small group of unvaccinated patients in our geriatrics clinic might benefit at this point from further discussions of vaccination within the context of established relationships with people they trust [ 5 , 7 , 8 ]. With studying the results of telephone-based intervention with older adult patients at our institution (the “S” of the PDSA cycle), we therefore hypothesized that supporting tailored conversations on vaccination between primary care providers in the geriatrics clinic and unvaccinated patients would be a reasonable next step.…”

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Addressing Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older U.S. Veterans

2022

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Efforts are being made to ensure that COVID-19 vaccination among older adults is as complete as possible. Dialogue-based interventions tailored to patients’ specific concerns have shown potential for effectiveness in promoting vaccination. We implemented a quality improvement project intended to help patients in an outpatient geriatrics clinic overcome barriers to COVID-19 vaccination. We offered tailored conversations by telephone in which we discussed the barriers to vaccination that the patients were facing and offered to provide relevant information and/or logistical assistance. Of the 184 patients reached by phone, 125 (68%) endorsed having already been vaccinated and 59 (32%) did not. About one third of the unvaccinated patients were willing to participate in tailored conversations (20 patients = 34% of the unvaccinated). In follow-up calls 30 days after the intervention we found that four of these 20 patients had received COVID-19 vaccination, one patient was scheduled for vaccination, 10 continued to be deciding about vaccination, four had decided against it and one could not be reached. Dialogue-based interventions that are conducted by telephone and are tailored to the specific barriers to vaccination being faced by older adults may have some effectiveness in encouraging vaccination against COVID-19. The effectiveness of such interventions may be decreased in populations that already have high vaccination rates and in which many patients have already formed strong opinions regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Completion of Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles is a feasible way to design, implement and work to optimize quality improvement efforts related to COVID-19 vaccination.

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Addressing Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older U.S. Veterans

2022

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“…Finally, the emergence of these figures could make it possible to correctly target the unvaccinated population, facilitating them in making conscious and informed choices, and thereby contributing decisively to obtaining that heard immunity so agonized for in order to secure a return to the forms of public and private life that characterized the pre-COVID era [31][32][33].…”

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SARS-CoV2 Vaccination Adverse Events Trend in Italy: A Retrospective Interpretation of the Last Year (December 2020–September 2021)

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At the end of 2020, a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 was launched. In 2021, legal obligations for health workers, as well as specific regulations for all workers, were introduced. The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was followed by epochal changes in life, school, and work habits in Italy. Therefore, the pharmacovigilance work currently being conducted in Italy by the AIFA concerning the recording and analysing of adverse reactions related to the use of vaccines has proved to be very important. The latest report, including a period of 10 months from December 2020 to September 2021, has allowed us to combine the results received so far, and to compare the safety of all vaccines currently available in Italy. The results of this analysis are highly encouraging and reveal the statistical reliability of the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines currently used in Italy. The dissemination of these findings could increase the public’s awareness of vaccines and their ability to make free and informed choices concerning vaccination. The potential increase in the Italian population’s adherence to the vaccination campaign could ultimately be a decisive factor in achieving herd immunity and the final resolution of the pandemic.

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“…Both vaccine inequality and hesitancy are likely to cause the spread of new variants [ 56 ]. Vaccination slowed down and this may cause the present situation [ 57 , 58 ]. In Israel, a new wave has been observed.…”

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Successive Pandemic Waves with Different Virulent Strains and the Effects of Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2

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One hundred years after the flu pandemic of 1918, the world faces an outbreak of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome, caused by a novel coronavirus. With a high transmissibility, the pandemic has spread worldwide, creating a scenario of devastation in many countries. By the middle of 2021, about 3% of the world population had been infected and more than 4 million people had died. Different from the H1N1 pandemic, which had a deadly wave and ceased, the new disease is maintained by successive waves, mainly produced by new virus variants and the small number of vaccinated people. In the present work, we create a version of the SIR model using the spatial localization of persons, their movements, and considering social isolation probabilities. We discuss the effects of virus variants, and the role of vaccination rate in the pandemic dynamics. We show that, unless a global vaccination is implemented, we will have continuous waves of infections.

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Promoting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA

Cited by 121 publications

References 39 publications

Addressing Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older U.S. Veterans

Addressing Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older U.S. Veterans

SARS-CoV2 Vaccination Adverse Events Trend in Italy: A Retrospective Interpretation of the Last Year (December 2020–September 2021)

Successive Pandemic Waves with Different Virulent Strains and the Effects of Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2

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