Brasil: 25 milhões do público prioritário ainda não se vacinaram contra gripe

Unvaccinated vulnerable populations—children, elderly, pregnant women, and immunocompromised individuals—face increased risk of severe influenza illness and complications.

With fewer than fifteen days remaining in Brazil's national flu vaccination campaign, some twenty-five million people from the country's most vulnerable groups—children, the elderly, pregnant women, teachers, and the immunocompromised—have yet to receive a dose that is already waiting for them. The doses exist, the infrastructure is in place, and autumn is arriving; what remains is the harder work of human persuasion. This moment asks an old question that public health has never fully answered: how does a society convince its most at-risk members to accept protection before the cost of refusal

Brasil: 25 milhões do público prioritário ainda não se vacinaram contra gripe

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