An updated study on vaccine reluctance among Saskatchewan parents who haven’t given their kids the COVID-19 shot has been produced by a research team.
CoVaRR-Net Recommendations on Vaccine Hesitancy in Children is the title of the study, which was released on Monday.
The report’s co-author is University of Saskatchewan epidemiology Nazeem Muhajarine. Given the availability of paediatric doses and the subsequent licencing of bivalent vaccines, he suggested the new study should be made public.
He said, “This is actually an assessment of the literature that results in certain recommendations that we conducted.
The report presents information gathered during the previous nine months.
The study broke down parents into three groups: those who wanted a vaccine for their child, those who refused, and those who are unsure whether to vaccinate their child.
In the 2017 Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey, 17 per cent of Canadian parents were vaccine hesitant.
Muhajarine claims that this percentage has now decreased to between 10% and 15%, however it varies by province.
He clarified that wary parents are not against vaccinations but are instead uncertain about whether to give their child one.
They read articles on vaccines on social media and in other sources of information, you know. Along with accurate, scientifically grounded information, there is a lot of misinformation and deception. So, they have lots of questions,” he said.
“They’re in the centre; they’re not first in line and they’re not the kind who will never get it. They will probably go toward receiving a vaccine if given the correct information by the right people at the right time, in the right place, and he continued.
The report provides several recommendations on the local, provincial and federal levels, but for Muhajarine, it comes down to two:
Immunization is about protection to Muhajarine.
Children must be protected because they have a bright future ahead of them. They are our future, you know. And we must take all necessary precautions to keep our children safe.
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