Overcoming Mistrust and Increasing Vaccination Rates in the Elderly Population: Insights from Doutor Ricardo Jorge

2023-09-04 17:27:02

As the autumn vaccination campaign for the elderly prepares (expanded this year to anyone over 60), the Portuguese public health institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge has revealed that a person over 65 out of three traditionally refuse vaccines, out of mistrust. According to a source at the institute, those who refuse vaccines “do not seem to do so because they do not know they are recommended, but because they are suspicious of the vaccine and do not consider themselves at risk of catching influenza “.

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