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Pakistan s Polio Playbook Has Lessons For Its COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Listen • 4:44 Polio vaccinator Zeenat Parveen, holding the clipboard, and a volunteer go door-to-door to reach children in Rawalpindi, a city near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The pandemic and polio are colliding in Pakistan. It s definitely harder for the country to keep up its efforts to wipe out this highly contagious disease. (Pakistan is one of the few pockets in the world where it s still circulating.) But the lessons learned from its polio effort are proving helpful for the coronavirus vaccination campaign. The backstory First, a bit of background is in order. The pandemic isn t the only obstacle to the polio effort. Four years ago, Pakistan was celebrated for coming close to eradicating the disease. Then came a viral video that upended the efforts.

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