Poll Sounds Alarm on Global Vaccine Hesitancy
Voice of America
03 May 2021, 16:05 GMT+10
The results of a new poll show that vaccine hesitancy worldwide poses a risk to ending the COVID-19 pandemic for good.
In 79 out of 117 countries surveyed, the number of people who said they were willing to be vaccinated was below 70%, the minimum percentage of the population that scientists say needs to have immunity to stop the virus from circulating.
Attitudes shift when vaccines arrive, though, experts note, and many of the countries have not begun mass vaccinations yet.
But the numbers give a glimpse of just how strong the headwinds are in some of these places, said Julie Ray, managing editor for world news at polling company Gallup, which conducted the survey.
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Uoma Beauty founder Sharon Chuter.Uoma Beauty
From social media makeup artists to grassroots disruptor brands, beauty is innately more democratic, lending itself to activism, says Uoma Beauty founder Sharon Chuter who launched Pull Up For Change in summer 2020 as a call to action. Fashionâs top-down exclusivity makes the industry more resistant, she says.
Chuter should know. In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests taking place in the US and in other parts of the world, Pull Up For Change asked companies to share the number of Black employees on their payrolls in an act of transparency and unity. While many of beautyâs biggest players participated, including Sephora, Ulta Beauty and Kylie Cosmetics, very few fashion brands responded, says Chuter.
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