Inhabitants of deprived neighborhoods receive ‘limited and often one-sided information’ from their immediate environment, which leads to fear and doubt, according to the doctors.
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Rotterdam
And that is extra dangerous, because the chance of being infected or dying from the virus is twice as high in disadvantaged neighborhoods, warn the Rotterdam GP Shakib Sana and professor and internist at Erasmus MC Robin Peeters. The low willingness to vaccinate in disadvantaged neighborhoods can lead to ‘a virus reservoir from which reinfections will continue to arise’, they write in a letter to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.
delayed
‘The way out of the pandemic is to vaccinate a large part of the population.’ That route, they say, is being delayed by stopping vaccination with AstraZeneca ‘because of a very small risk of side effect.
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