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Pakistan's COVID vaccine drive needs antidote to conspiracy theories


Helping to lead a mass trial for a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine in Pakistan, a country where anti-vax sentiment can turn lethal and conspiracy theories are endemic, Dr. Mohsin Ali has heard all kind of questions from anxious, prospective volunteers. “Is this going to take away my reproductive ability? Is this going to kill me? Is there any 5G chip in this? And, is there a conspiracy to control people en masse?” he said, recounting the sometimes bizarre doubts clouding people’s minds. “I get many questions like this,” he told Reuters at Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital, before adding “I try to answer them with logic and on the level of the individual asking them. Some still refuse.” The hospital is one of a number in Pakistan where phase III trials are underway for Chinese vaccine developer CanSino Biologics’ Ad5-nCoV candidate.

Reuters - December 8, 2020

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