Covid vaccine - rumours amid trickle of facts

Written by David Fletcher 03 Dec 2020
Covid vaccine - rumours amid trickle of facts

With the rollout of vaccines for Covid-19 now imminent, there are increasing concerns around misinformation (online or on social media) turning people against being immunised. The WHO says an overload of information, some false, makes it difficult for people to make decisions about their health. One participant in a coronavirus vaccine trial said, ‘It's often very difficult with the amount of information that we are being bombarded with to make sense of what you should be doing. I think a vaccine is one of the only ways out of the situation if we want to get away from endless lockdowns and curfews.’ Researchers have moved at record speed to develop vaccines, and the WHO is monitoring data from over 200 trials on several types of vaccine based on different technologies. They are going through the same safety tests as vaccines already used all around the world.

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  • Pray: for the WHO, governments and local regulatory authorities to succeed in answering people's concerns and help them evaluate social media information, so that the offer of immunisation is accepted and the pandemic stemmed. (Proverbs 15:22)